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Ethics of Dietitians

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Decision-making framework; Dietitians; Ethics; Food; Medicalization; Nutrition

Introduction

Registered dietitians are those charged with addressing nutritional health in clinical, public health, and private environments as well as overseeing the production of large-scale food operations in hospitals and other organizations. Given the ethical debates surfacing within contemporary food and nutrition topics, dietitians are often in positions where ethical decisions are required. However, ethics as an area of inquiry within dietetics is limited. Furthermore, there is a paucity of evidence that ethics is taught to dietetic students during their undergraduate education. This situates dietitians as having to address ethical issues while being largely unprepared to do so. The purpose of this essay is to outline ethical debates in dietetics and propose a means to adequately prepare food and nutrition professionals for ethical decision-making frameworks arising in practice....

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Dr. Jacqui Gingras

  2. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Dr. Raquel Duchen

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  1. Michigan State University Dept. Philosophy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  2. University of North Texas Dept. Philosophy & Religion Studies, Denton, Texas, USA

    David M. Kaplan

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Gingras, J., Duchen, R. (2013). Ethics of Dietitians. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_208-2

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