Let's value, but not idealize, emotions

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 380-383

  Halpern, Jodi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONFLICT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTUITION; MENTAL CAPACITY; PARENT; PARENTAL CONSENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

CAREGIVERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTUITION; MENTAL COMPETENCY; PARENTAL CONSENT; PARENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 39149106433     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. A. Janvier, "How Much Emotion Is Enough?" in this issue of JCE.
2. F. Cohn, "Real Life Informs Consent," in this issue of JCE.
3. J.D. Higginson, "Emotion, Suffering, and Hope: Commentary on 'How Much Emotion Is Enough?' " in this issue of JCE.
4. D.M. Browning et al., "Reflections on Love, Fear, and Specializing in the Impossible," in this issue of JCE.
5. M.O. Little, "Seeing and Caring: The Role of Affect in Feminist Moral Epistemology," Hypatia 10, no. 3 (1995): 117-31.
6. J. Halpern and H. Weinstein, "Rehumanizing the Other: Empathy and Reconciliation," Human Rights Quarterly 26, no. 3 (August 2004): 561-83;
7. J. Halpern, From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001);
8. M. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
9. R. Dworkin, Life's Dominion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), 226-7.
10. Halpern, From Detached Concern to Empathy, see note 6 above.
11. Emphasis added.
12. A. O'Connor et al., "Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: systematic review," British Medical Journal 319 (1999): 731-4.
13. This distinction is easier to see when we don't sympathize with a parent's judgment - as for example, when a parent sees a child with mildly short stature as likely to be irreparably socially rejected and subjects the child to very aggressive treatments, while data actually report that shorter children do very well socially if they are otherwise psychologically supported. See E. Parens, "Authenticity and Ambivalence: Toward Understanding the Enhancement Debate," Hastings Center Report 35, no. 3 (2005): 34-41;
14. D.G. Gill, " 'Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Bigger?': The Ethics and Equity of Growth Hormone for Small Normal Children," Archives of Disease in Childhood 91, no. 3 (2006): 270-2;
15. L.D. Voss and D.E. Sandberg, "The Psychological Burden of Short Stature: Evidence Against," European Journal of Endocrinology 151 (2004): S29-33.