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Vol. 63 No. 1 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.69
Problemas en la relación mèdico-enfermo y ètica de las virtudes como propuesta de solución
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This article has two parts. The first deals with some important issues about the doctor-patient relationship, such as the right to information, informed consent, advance directives, the right to confidentiality, conscientious objection, and so on. It shows how they all appear in the doctor-patient relationship, and how they all indicate a lack of confidence as a common origin. The second part deals with how to recover this lost confidence through ethics of virtue (versus Kant's ethics of duties, or Stuart Mill's utilitarian ethics). As an example, we propose the solution of the problems outlined in the first part, showing some particular medical virtues. We propose an adaptation of the World Health cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance), and we discuss the physician's cardinal virtues proposed by Beauchamp and Childress (compassion, insight, trustworthiness and integrity) adding a proposal to investigate in this way. Finally, it attempts an anthropological reading of the theological virtues (faith, hope and charity) applied to the medical world.
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Problemas en la relación mèdico-enfermo y ètica de las virtudes como propuesta de solución. (2014). Medicina E Morale, 63(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.69
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