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Relational autonomy and paternalism – why the physician-patient relationship matters
Both paternalism and relational autonomy are two concepts that are much discussed in medical ethics. Strangely enough, they have hardly been...
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Paternalism and Liberty/Autonomy as Dialectically Related Concepts
Following a seminal definition by Gerald Dworkin, paternalism comprises interventions which interfere with the liberty or autonomy of a person, lack...
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Epistemic Libertarian Paternalism
Libertarian paternalism is a weak form of paternalism that recommends nudges rather than bans, restrictions, or other strong interventions. Nudges...
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Nesting Paternalism. Patterns of the Paternalistic Behaviour from Neolithization and the Modern Age
Paternalism can appear with other forms of social actions toward others and ourselves, a set of activities we comprehend as a part of paternalistic...
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Paternalism and Preventing Self-Harm
One of the best arguments supporting drug prohibition is the paternalism argument, which claims that the government is justified in limiting freedoms...
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How to reveal disguised paternalism: version 2.0
BackgroundWe aim to further develop an index for detecting disguised paternalism, which might influence physicians’ evaluations of whether or not a...
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Preventing Assistance to Die: Assessing Indirect Paternalism Regarding Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
The chapter focuses on cases of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia in relation to the rarely discussed notion of indirect paternalism....
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Paternalism
The word “paternalism” derives etymologically from the Latin paternus (of a father, fatherly). It designates a doctrine or theory that allows...
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Sex, Love, and Paternalism
Paternalistic behaviour directed towards a person’s informed and competent decisions is often thought to be morally impermissible. This view is...
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Patriarchy, Paternalism, and Politics of Reproductive Autonomy: Abortion Rights in Japan
While Japan ranks relatively high in overall health indicators with life expectancy and healthcare coverage, a plethora of problems exist when it...
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Patients’ preference approach to overcome the moral implications of family-centred decisions in Saudi medical settings
BackgroundIn Saudi clinical settings, cultural influences can give a patient’s family authority to override the patient’s autonomous right to make...
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Communication patterns in the doctor–patient relationship: evaluating determinants associated with low paternalism in Mexico
BackgroundPaternalism/overprotection limits communication between healthcare professionals and patients and does not promote shared therapeutic...
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Sharing a medical decision
During the last decades, shared decision making (SDM) has become a very popular model for the physician-patient relationship. SDM can refer to a...
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Explainability, Public Reason, and Medical Artificial Intelligence
The contention that medical artificial intelligence (AI) should be ‘explainable’ is widespread in contemporary philosophy and in legal and best...
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Children’s Capacities and Paternalism
Paternalism is widely viewed as presumptively justifiable for children but morally problematic for adults. The standard explanation for this...
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Ethical Foundations: Medical Ethics and Data Ethics
This chapter outlines basic concepts in medical ethics and data ethics. It aims to provide some kind of orientation regarding the complex issues,...
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Patient Preference Predictors and Paternalism in Military Medicine
Patient preference predictors (PPPs) take us from known demographic descriptors to unknown facts about patients’ preferences over treatment options....
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Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?
In contemporary paternalism literature, persuasion is commonly not considered paternalistic. Moreover, paternalism is typically understood to be...
