Kant and Therapeutic Privilege  

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Brown, Chris

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 33 no. 4 (Aug. 2008), page 321.
Topik: informed consent; Kant; lying; therapeutic privilege

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.21 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Given Kant's exceptionless moral prohibition on lying, one might suspect that he is committed to a similar prohibition on withholding diagnostic and prognostic information from patients. I confirm this suspicion by adapting arguments against therapeutic privilege from his arguments against lying. However, I show that all these arguments are importantly flawed and submit that they should be rejected. A more compelling Kantian take on informed consent and therapeutic privilege is achievable, I argue, by focusing on Kant's duty of beneficence, which requires us to aim at furthering others’ ends. But I show that there are some cases in which furthering a patient's ends requires withholding material medical information from her. Although I concede that these cases are probably quite rare, I conclude that the best Kantian thinking agrees with that of therapeutic privilege's advocates.

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