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Philosophy, Medical , Suicide , Decision Making , Ethics, Medical , Freedom , Humans , Mental Disorders , Public HealthSubject(s)
Bioethics , Decision Making , Ethics, Clinical , Ethics, Medical , Communication , Ethical Analysis , Ethical Theory , Humans , Informed Consent , Models, Theoretical , Principle-Based EthicsSubject(s)
Bioethics , Ethics Committees , Philosophy , Postmodernism , Social Values , Stress, Psychological , Decision Making , Ethical Theory , Ethicists , Ethics Committees, Clinical , Ethics, Medical , Informed Consent , Moral Development , National Socialism , Paternalism , Professional Misconduct , Religion and Medicine , Uncertainty , United StatesSubject(s)
Patient Compliance/psychology , Physician-Patient Relations , Comprehension , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Health Services Misuse , Humans , Informed Consent , Patient Participation/psychology , Patient Selection , Personal Autonomy , Resource Allocation , Risk Assessment , Trust , United States , Vulnerable PopulationsSubject(s)
Ethicists , Ethics, Medical , Family , Physician's Role , Professional Role , Consensus , Consultants , Humans , Negotiating , Professional-Family RelationsSubject(s)
Architecture , Ethicists , Ethics Consultation , Ethics, Professional , Morals , Occupational Health , Professional Role , Humans , Philosophy , PostmodernismSubject(s)
Anencephaly , Disabled Persons/legislation & jurisprudence , Refusal to Treat/legislation & jurisprudence , Right to Die/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Values , Dissent and Disputes , Female , Group Processes , Humans , Infant , Judicial Role , Personal Autonomy , Resource Allocation , Virginia , Withholding TreatmentABSTRACT
As the number of patients with chronic illness or disability grows, rehabilitation professionals will face increasingly difficult questions. Traditional concepts of medical ethics can help find solutions to some, but not all of those questions. Rehabilitation medicine needs an expanded vision of informed consent, one that embraces the needs of patients and promotes rehabilitation's educational model. To insure that rehabilitation professionals use this model appropriately, we need to make certain that their education integrates humanistic and caring virtues with medical knowledge and skill.
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Ethics, Medical , Rehabilitation , Education, Medical/standards , Humans , Informed Consent , Personal Autonomy , Physician-Patient Relations , Rehabilitation/educationSubject(s)
Consultants , Ethicists , Ethics Consultation , Ethics, Medical , Professional Role , Specialization , Cultural Diversity , Ethical Analysis , Ethics Committees , Ethics Committees, Clinical , Ethics, Clinical , Humans , Interdisciplinary Communication , Morals , Social Responsibility , Social Values , United StatesABSTRACT
PIP: This article maintains that when the US Supreme Court chose to decide Roe vs. Wade based on the concepts of privacy and personhood, it made a mistake that has crippled the approach to the problems raised by abortion. The Court opened itself to immediate challenge by ruling that a fetus is not a person and that a woman's right to abortion is tied to fetal viability. This approach has been further compromised by advances in medical technology which have substantially increased fetal viability. While one problem with insisting upon the right to privacy is that the Constitution fails to mention the concept, the real question about privacy concerns the nature of the relationship which should exist between the individual and the state. When pro-life forces voice an intention to eradicate privacy, they (perhaps unwittingly) play into the hands of those who view privacy as an impediment to the government's ability to assert itself in individual lives. The use of this concept to justify abortion leaves people wondering why privacy rather than life has anything to do with abortion. Just because the Roe decision is flawed, however, does not imply that it must or should be overturned. Roe was not wrongly decided, it was simply poorly decided, and both Roe and its opponents attempt to deny that the Court faced a tragic choice that implicates essential values which can not be decided in absolute terms. In order to reach a solution that demonstrates a respect for life and liberty, we must look beyond these concepts to that of equity. When considering rape, incest, and even contraception and the pursuit of motherhood, it is easy to see that we are a long way from equalizing sexual relations between men and women. The equity approach opens a much broader view of what abortion is really about, which is the status and role of women in society. While Roe has polarized women, centering the debate on a belief in equity may have generated solidarity and consensus around that principle. By looking at abortion in this way, we may move beyond our current impasse, but the road ahead will still be difficult.^ieng
