The patient's work

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-52

  Groopman, Leonard C ^a   Miller, Franklin G ^a   Fins, Joseph J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; REVIEW;

BIOETHICS; HUMANS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SICK ROLE;

EID: 33947387965     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180107070053     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Brody H. The Healer's Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; 1992:36.
2. See note 1, Brody 1992:1.32.
3. See note 1, Brody 1992:116.
4. In one of the rare essays directly addressing the question of the obligations of the patient, Martin Benjamin, in "Lay Obligations in Professional Relations," simply "requires lay people to honor commitments and disclose relevant information." Benjamin M. Lay obligations in professional relations. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 10;1985:85-103.
5. See also Brody H. Patients' responsibilities. In: Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan; 1995.
6. Parsons T. The Social System. New York: Free Press; 1951:436-7.
7. Katz J. The Silent World of Doctor and Patient. New York: Free Press; 1984:100-1.
8. See note 6, Katz 1984:122-3
9. See note 6, Katz 1984:104.
10. Schneider CE. The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998:9-32.
11. For an overview see Seligman MEP. Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death. San Francisco: Freeman; 1975.
12. See note 9, Schneider 1998:229.
13. Emanuel EJ, Emanuel LL. Four models of the physician-patient relationship. JAMA 1992;267:2221.
14. See note 1, Brody 1992:162. See also Dochin A. Understanding autonomy relationally: Toward a reconfiguration of bioethical principles. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2001;26:365-8.
15. Frank A. The Wounded Storyteller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1995:115.
16. Broyard A. Intoxicated by My Illness. New York: Clarkson Potter; 1992:45.
17. In this case, as in many psychiatric cases, the evolving treatment situation includes changes in the patient's mental state or state of self.
18. Brody H. Stories of Sickness. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; 1987:128-42.
19. Although, of course, noncompliance may be a sign of the doctor's failure to do his work of engaging the patient in the treatment process. In the paternalistic model, however, engaging the patient in the treatment does not form part of the doctor's work.
20. Despite the oft-noted resistance by many doctors to informed consent, there is evidence that what Robert Zusman has called "the culture of rights" has permeated into the medical world. See Zusman R. Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1992:219-29.
21. Fox RC. Training for uncertainty, In: Schwartz H, Kart C. Dominant Issues in Medical Sociology. Reading, Mass.; 1978; see note 1, Brody 1992:260-7.
22. Fins JJ. Truth-telling and reciprocity in the doctor-patient relationship: A North American perspective. In: Portenoy RK, Bruera E, eds. Topics in Palliative Care, vol. 5. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001:92.