Having Words with Ethicists  

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Chambers, Tod

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 29 no. 6 (Dec. 2004), page 647-650.
Topik: Bioethics
Fulltext: MM80V29N6P647.pdf (22.93KB)

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One could characterize the entire history of bioethics in North American as consisting of a series of skirmishes over the precise meanings of words. At a recent conference I watched a fascinating example of this as two scholars debated whether artificial feeding was “natural.” One of the scholars, a philosopher, argued that removing devices such as feeding tubes should be viewed as the removal of an acquired external imposition by medicine upon the natural body. The other, a scholar of disability studies, argued that there was great danger in seeing artificial feeding in this way. She noted that she had many friends for whom the daily intake of nutrition through GI tubes was viewed as perfectly natural to them. Why so much intellectual work over this issue? For those in bioethics such distinctions have profound consequences. If we view GI tubes as no more unnatural than using a fork and knife then refusing a GI tube should be viewed by health care professionals with as much distress as a patient refusing to take food by mouth.

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