Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics

Abstract Often lurking below the surface of many clinical ethical issues are questions regarding background metaphysical, epistemological, meta-ethical, and political beliefs. In this issue, authors critically examine effects beliefs on conscientious objection, explore through lenses particular theoretical approaches like pragmatism intersectional theory, rigorously basic concepts at play within patient safety movement, offer new to old problems involving decision making for patients with dementia, explicate promises machine learning in medicine, us a non-rights-based argument just distribution healthcare resources.