Moral Concensus in Public Ethics: Patient Autonomy and Family Decision Making in The Work of One State Bioethics Commision  

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Moskowitz, Ellen H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 21 no. 2 (Apr. 1996), page 149-168.
Topik: Autonomy; Consensus; Family Decision Making; Government Bioethics; Incompetent patients; Life-Sustaining Treatment; Surrogate Decision Making

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Focusing on the work of bioethics commission, the New York State Task Force on LIfe and the Law, this article explores the role played by moral consensus in public ethics. Task Force members, who were appointed to repsent diverse interest in New York State, indentified a culturally strong value of individual autonomy as ethical basis for their work on life-sustaining treatment. This moral consensus permitted the members to unite across their differenences and develop public policy recommendations that subtantially reformed a highly troubling New York law. However, the principle of autonomy insufficiently guides decisions by caring family members for imcompentent adults in cases vision is required-one that grants a more robust moral authority to the family. While government efforts that rely on moral consensus developed in a broad based and well-reasoned manner can serve us well, in some cases the consenus will provide inadequate moral guidance. Government bioethical efforts must guard againts the limits of moral visison in light of their disproportionate societal power.

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