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Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care
This manuscript draws on the moral norms arising from the nuanced accounts of epistemic (in)justice and social identity in relational autonomy to...
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Relationships
In this chapter, I analyze the impact of MAI on relationships as well as roles within healthcare. I identify three crucial relationships, the...
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Against Ulysses contracts for patients with borderline personality disorder
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) sometimes request to be admitted to hospital under compulsory care, often under the argument that...
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Personal Identity and Self-Regarding Choice in Medical Ethics
When talking about personal identity in the context of medical ethics, ethicists tend to borrow haphazardly from different philosophical notions of...
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Philosophy and Ethical Advisory Boards in German Medicine
Medical Ethics advisory boards are globally distributed but influenced by different traditions. In Germany this tradition follows on the one hand the...
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The Rhetoric of the ‘Passive Patient’ in Indian Medical Negligence Cases
In this paper, I examine the rhetoric employed by court judgements, with a particular emphasis on the narrative construct of the ‘passive patient’....
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Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study
BackgroundBased on the principle of informed consent, doctors are required to fully inform patients and respect their medical decisions. In China,...
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Ethical perspectives regarding Euthanasia, including in the context of adult psychiatry: a qualitative interview study among healthcare workers in Belgium
IntroductionPrevious research has explored euthanasia’s ethical dimensions, primarily focusing on general practice and, to a lesser extent,...
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Ethical values supporting the disclosure of incidental and secondary findings in clinical genomic testing: a qualitative study
BackgroundIncidental findings (IFs) and secondary findings (SFs), being results that are unrelated to the diagnostic question, are the subject of an...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation in Chronic Illness: Challenging Epistemic Injustice Through Epistemic Modesty
Leading paradigms of clinical ethics consultation closely follow a biomedical model of care. In this paper, we present a theoretical reflection on...
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Understanding, Identifying, and Addressing Human Vulnerabilities in Medicine
The concept of vulnerability and, more specifically, its use in bioethics and in the philosophy of medicine, is at the heart of hotly contested...
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Understanding, being, and doing of bioethics; a state-level cross-sectional study of knowledge, attitude, and practice among healthcare professionals
BackgroundThe field of bioethics examines the moral and ethical dilemmas that arise in the biological sciences, healthcare, and medical practices....
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Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study
BackgroundThe often poor prognosis associated with cancer necessitates empowering patients to express their care preferences. Yet, the prevalence of...
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The Hunter Gracchus: A Franz Kafka Story of Death’s Dehumanization
This chapter discusses the potential lack of human capacities among medical professionals who are trained to expertly focus on biological...
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Instead of a Conclusion: Seven Lessons for the Present and an Outlook
In this closing chapter, I summarize my main results, but not in the form of narrative conclusion. Rather, I define seven lessons for the present...
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Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry
BackgroundCompulsory treatments represent a legal means of imposing treatment on an individual, usually with a mental illness, who refuses...
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Let us talk about eggs! Professional resistance to elective egg vitrification and gendered medical paternalism
In this paper, by applying a feminist bioethical perspective, we identify a new form of medical paternalism that still shapes contemporary legal...
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Non-Psychiatric Treatment Refusal in Patients with Depression: How Should Surrogate Decision-Makers Represent the Patient’s Authentic Wishes?
Patients with mental illness, and depression in particular, present clinicians and surrogate decision-makers with complex ethical dilemmas when they...