Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: Lessons in moral theory from the dutch

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 39-45

  Lindemann, Hilde ^a  

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Indexed keywords

BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN; MORALITY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; REVIEW;

BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHICAL THEORY; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NARRATION; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 70450248672     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0188     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.
2. J. L. Levere, "Scrambling to Get Hold of a Passport," New York Times, January 23, 2007; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/business/23passport. html.
3. R. de Vries, L. K. Low, and E. Bogdan- Lovis, "Choosing Surgical Birth: Desire and the Nature of Bioethical Advice," in Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, ed. H. Lindemann, M. U. Walker, and M. Verkerk (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 43.
4. See, for example, T. H. Murray, "What Do We Mean by Narrative Ethics?" in Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics, ed. H. L. Nelson (New York: Routledge, 1997) ;
5. M. U. Walker, Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics, second ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) ;
6. H. Brody, Stories of Sickness, second ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) ;
7. R. Charon, Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) ;
8. and A. MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, second ed. (New York: Oxford University Press), among many others.
9. The locus classicus for this lament is P. Ramsey, The Patient as Person (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974).
10. J. Dancy, Ethics Without Principles (Oxford, U. K.: Clarendon Press, 2004), 1.
11. J. Arras, "Nice Story, but So What?" in Stories and Their Limits, ed. Nelson.
12. L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe (New York: Macmillan, 1958), sec. 43.
13. S. Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays (New York: Scribner, 1969).
14. J. McDowell, Mind and World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994).
15. S. Lovibond, Ethical Formation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 39.
16. S. Lovibond, Ethical Formation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 40.
17. S. Lovibond, Ethical Formation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 42.
18. S. Lovibond, Ethical Formation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 42.
19. F. A. Chervenak, L. B. McCullough, and B. Arabin, "Why the Groningen Protocol Should Be Rejected," Hastings Center Report 36, no. 5 (2006) : 30-33.
20. E. Verhagen and P. J. J. Sauer, "The Groningen Protocol: Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns," New England Journal of Medicine 352 (2005) : 959-62;
21. E. Verhagen and P. J. J. Sauer, "End-of-Life Decisions in Newborns: An Approach from the Netherlands," Pediatrics 116 (2005) : 736-39.
22. Verhagen and Sauer, "End-of-Life Decisions," p. 736.
23. H. Lindemann and M. Verkerk, "Ending the Life of a Newborn: The Groningen Protocol," Hastings Center Report 38, no. 1 (2008) : 42-51.
24. J. D. Lantos, The Lazarus Case: Lifeand-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 29.
25. M. Platts, Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language (London, U. K.: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), 262.
26. S. Lovibond, Realism and Imagination in Ethics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 81.
27. Thanks to Jim Nelson for helping me to get clear about this.
28. The notion of epistemic rigging comes from Walker, Moral Understandings.
29. Lovibond, Realism and Imagination, 158.
30. For a preliminary account of how this works, see H. L. Nelson, "What Child Is This?" Hastings Center Report 32, no. 6 (2002) : 29-38.
31. A. Baier, Postures of the Mind: Essays on Mind and Morals (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985), 84-85.