The three deadly sins of ethics consultation

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-108

  Howe, Edmund G ^a  

^a NONE

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ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICIST; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ETHICISTS; ETHICS CONSULTATION; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIAL VALUES; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

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References (4)

1. "Careproviders" refers here to all persons who are involved in medical ethical decision making.
2. Classic examples of such cultural views are those regarding tuberculosis. Susan Sontag states, for example, "By... turning [subversive longings] into cultural pieties, the TB [romantic] myth survived irrefutable human experience and accumulating medical knowledge for nearly two hundred years.... If it is still difficult to imagine how the reality of such a dreadful disease could be transformed so preposterously, it may help to consider [that in] ... the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity... is insanity." S. Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (New York: Random House, 1978), 33-34.
3. F. Meinecke states, for example, "Even the attitude to life, this most direct and apparently indissoluble and most original expression of the inner man, is subject to the changes [and chances] of history." F. Meinecke, Historism/ The Rise of a New Historical Outlook, trans. J.I. Anderson (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972): xxxiv. He asserts as an example that "Up until . . . [the 17th century], in the naïve conviction that human nature was supreme, the aim had been to use it as a means of comprehending the objective content of the world." (p. 3)
4. As K.R. Popper states, "The social group is more than the mere sum total of its members, and it is also more than the mere sum total of the merely personal relationships existing at any moment between any of its members. ... [It] is even conceivable that a group may keep much of its original character even if all of its original members are replaced by others." K.R. Popper, The Poverty of Historicism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957), 17.