Picking up ethical challenges within the humdrum of medical practice: does one ever get too used to it?. (360G-Wellcome-106351_Z_14_Z)

£4,900

While phenomenological studies suggest that high degrees of expertise can enable some professionals to bypass cognitive processes altogether and intuitively see the solution to a problem, repeated exposure to the same scenario is conversely suspected to numb one's emotional sensitivity: [T]he horrible thing about all [...] officials, even the best [...] is not that they are wicked (some of them are good), not that they are stupid (several of them are quite intelligent). It is simply that they h ave got used to it. Is it the case that scenarios that would otherwise arouse powerful emotions (and hence alert our ethical sensitivity) can be sunk into the humdrum by the combined weight of professional identity and the habits entailed by it? Recent empirical studies have highlighted a wide variety of environmental and emotional factors shaping our moral attitudes, yet so far little attention has been paid to the impact of professional habits on such attitudes. This pilot study propos es to use highly immersive, virtual reality technology to enact -with 3D avatars- a seemingly routine medical scenario and test the participants' ability to discern indicators of some underlying ethical concerns.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 4900
Applicant Surname Delacroix
Approval Committee ERG10 Medical Humanities
Award Date 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2013/14
Grant Programme: Title Small grant in H&SS
Internal ID 106351/Z/14/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Sylvie Delacroix
Partnership Value 4900
Planned Dates: End Date 2015-06-05T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2014-11-06T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London