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THE CONTRACT MYTH OR THE CARE MYTH? NARRATIVE ORIGINS OF BIOETHICS
Warren Thomas Reich
; Sveučilište Georgetown, Washington D.C.
Sažetak
Modes of explaining the relationship between the sick, deprived
and injured person on the one hand, and the doctor
on the other, as well as our excuses for the moral expectations
emerging in these relationships, are the central point of this article.
The author says that the way of interpreting human conditions
such as intense suffering, chronic inability, the loss of life goals,
the attainment of sound emotional, mental and physical health,
fear of technological interference with life, excitement due to medical
revelations etc. influences our experience of these and similar
conditions, but also through our direct activity we care for
someone who is not well, for his life, health and well-being. The
paradigm so far prevailing in the relationship expert-patient, the
heart of which is the contract-Iibertarian approach, should be subjected
to the paradigm based on experience and the concept of
care. As the key to understanding this new relationship, the author
offers the following stories: 'the war of all against all' myth
and the 'care' myth. Morally directing us, as we read the myths,
the author pleads for understanding, for the establishment of a
new ethical discipline - 'the ethics of care' as an integral part of
the new medical ethics.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
31919
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.5.1996.
Posjeta: 2.144 *