The second was whether paternalism as an ethical standard should be considered from the ethical lens of the western industrialized nations, rather than from the African cultural context. This entailed a review and examination of the literature on paternalism. We searched databases such as PubMed, ...
Findings The articulation of patient participation emphasises the challenge between, on the one side, orientations of ethical care, and, on the other, paternalism and biomedicine. The core category was generated from four inter鈥恟elated categories: (i) taking care of the individual needs; (ii)...
And personally, I shrug at the paternalism angle because I know better than to expose myself to this nonsense. Banning peddlers of falsehoods cannot save us from destructive worldviews.But as long as facts are invented to manipulate people’s emotions and then spread virally through social media...
To treat a decisionally impaired patient's requests for abortion as autonomous is disrespectful of the vulnerable patient because such paternalism fails to respect the patient's liberty and the surrogate's authority. Introduction Health care providers faced an ethical dilemma when Rebecca, a pregnant...
Rather, they analyse each ground of criminal prohibition—wrongfulness, harm-based, offense, and paternalistic prohibitions aimed at preventing self-harm—so as to develop guiding principles for their use (or, in the case of paternalism, the absence of an independent principle that would underwrite...
Clearly, the cooperation partners’ expectations and forms of appropriation are of utmost importance in a participatory endeavour that seeks to evade the ills of paternalism and the reproduction of (colonial) power asymmetries (Irani et al. 2010). At the same time, it is evidently impossible to ...
PaternalismMedical ethicsWhile psychiatry often has the task of averting danger to third parties, the legitimacy of this task has been controversially discussed and repeatedly questioned. From an ethical perspective, coercive measures or coercive treatment in the context of danger to others must always ...
Autonomy is particularly important to feminist thought in the domain of healthcare, because demanding autonomy is the most obvious and direct way of avoiding paternalism. Paternalism occurs when the autonomy of a competent person is overridden on the grounds that an action is intended to improve the...
Anderson argues that the cost and ineffectiveness of current anti-doping justifies a more pragmatic approach based on ‘libertarian’ paternalism, suggesting that the funds used in anti-doping might be better spent elsewhere in developing sport and he believes that the ineffectiveness of anti-doping ...
lives should go. Collectively constrained negotiation is incompatible with individuals exercising their agency over the central aspects of their lives, even if it benefits them. It is an instance of wrongful paternalism that has no place within a conception of political morality that protects freedom....