HMC Ethics Forum: Justice and Equity: Attending to Silenced Voices in Ethics

Through analyzing the practice of land acknowledgments, this presentation seeks to inspire ethicists to acknowledge the harm of impartiality as a core concept of justice. Through engaging in self-reflection, examination of, and interrogation of the justice principle that ethics as a field can elevate silenced, marginalized, and excluded voices.

Objectives:

1. Examine the application of justice and equity in ethics
2. Identify challenges and barriers to equity in current practices
3. Foster a culture of critical examination of the origin of ethics and ethical principles that may unwittingly silence voices

Speaker Bio:

Arika Moore Patneaude is the director of the Bioethics, Palliative Care and Journey Grief Support Programs at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Arika is a Cambia Sojourn Scholar, licensed independent clinical social worker, grief therapist, palliative care clinician and clinical ethicist who has worked extensively in social services for 30+ years. Arika’s scholarship is focused on the intersections of personhood, storytelling, social justice and providing quality care in all forms in palliative care and ethics. She has taught and spoken on these topics nationally and internationally.