THE CONTRACT MYTH OR THE CARE MYTH? NARRATIVE ORIGINS OF BIOETHICS Cover Image

MIT O UGOVORU ILI MIT O SKRBI? NARATIVNA PODRIJETLA BIOETIKE
THE CONTRACT MYTH OR THE CARE MYTH? NARRATIVE ORIGINS OF BIOETHICS

Author(s): Warren Thomas Reich
Contributor(s): Ivan Čehok (Translator)
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Evaluation research
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Care; origins of bioethics; health;

Summary/Abstract: Modes of explaining the relationship between the sick, deprived and injured person on the one hand, and the doctor on the other, as well as our excuses for the moral expectations emerging in these relationships, are the central point of this article. The author says that the way of interpreting human conditions such as intense suffering, chronic inability, the loss of life goals, the attainment of sound emotional, mental and physical health, fear of technological interference with life, excitement due to medical revelations etc. influences our experience of these and similar conditions, but also through our direct activity we care for someone who is not well, for his life, health and well-being.

  • Issue Year: 5/1996
  • Issue No: 23+24
  • Page Range: 559-578
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Croatian