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Personal Identity in Medical Discourses

Peter R. Ritter ; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Medizinische Fakultät – Universitätsklinik St. Josef-Hospital/Medizinische Klinik I, Bochum, Deutschland

Sažetak

Person and personal identity, originally philosophical concepts, find its application also in medical discourses. Moreover, their interpretations are not derived exclusively from historical context of philosophical and theological ideas, but acquire an ethical dimension on the level of human behaviour. Their special meaning is obtained in the patient-physician interaction, which is manifested in the bodily-phenomenal interpretation of personality: this ranges from autonomy and purposiveness of a reflectively structured consciousness to the apparent dissociation of the body and the person in the concept of brain death. The understanding of the human being as person is thereby a part of the anthropological paradigm that presents the basis for ethically acceptable action in medical crisis situations. The deficiency caused by the loss of personal autonomy is therefore an indication of a deficient corporeality, which medicine has chosen as its research object..

Ključne riječi

person; identity; bioethics; patient–physician relationship; corporeality; anthropology

Hrčak ID:

101726

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/101726

Datum izdavanja:

19.2.2013.

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