In Nack's (2008) terms respondents wanted to be offered screning by healthcare workers who would employ patient-centred rather than moral surveillance methods of interaction.
Respondents' accounts indicate that they believed that younger female healthcare workers would be more likely to employ patient-centred interaction models, and males and older females would be more likely to employ moral surveillance methods.
As mentioned by David DeGrazia, surely, we already have at our disposal many different means of enhancing our moral capacities: methods such as "explicit moral instruction, mentoring, socialization, carefully designed public policies, consciousness-raising groups, literature and other media that encourage moral reflection, and individual efforts at improvement" ([ 29]: 361).
Professionals who use moral surveillance methods of interacting with patients should be considered unsuitable for engaging in the kind of work described in this article, or receive feedback on how they could change their interaction approach so as to make it more suitable to patients.
However, to have a normative approach, the phenomenological hermeneutical method was combined with the moral philosophical method of WRE as a decision procedure in the construction of the interview guide as described in Ebbesen & Pedersen [ 6].
In Ebbesen & Pedersen [ 6] we argue that the phenomenological hermeneutical method can be combined with the moral philosophical method of Wide Reflective Equilibrium (WRE) as a decision procedure for the formulation of normative principles, because WRE is a method or process of deciding what we should think, not merely one of describing what we do think [ 7].
In democracies, maintaining public morale in wartime depends in part on the public's continuing to believe that the cause is just and the methods moral.
However, he stressed the importance of improving methods of moral inquiry over advocating particular moral conclusions, given that the latter are always subject to revision in light of new evidence.
We claim that human beings now have at their disposal means of wiping out life on Earth and that traditional methods of moral education are probably insufficient to achieve the moral enhancement required to ensure that this will not happen.
