scholarly journals DO NO HARM—DO PATIENTS HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES TOO?

2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Brazier

TOWARDS the end of his judgment in R. v. Collins and Ashworth Hospital Authority ex p. Brady,Kay J. (as he then was) delivered the following homily: it would seem to me a matter of deep regret if the law has developed to a point in this area where the rights of a patient count for everything and other ethical values and institutional integrity count for nothing.

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-332
Author(s):  

AbstractThe concrete expression of ethical values in legal arrangements may require a long period. In our experience, this period can sometimes be quite brief when it comes to bioethical issues, as it can be seen in the legal arrangement in Turkey concerning organ transplantations. Turkey can be considered a fortunate country with respect to legal arrangements for organ transplantation in that laws on organ transplantation in Turkey date back to twebty years ago. At the time this law went into effect, the ethical discussion on this issue were yet to begin. The rationale behind the law was to prevent physicians from legal prosecution due to organ transplantation. Yet, the attempt to place organ transplantation into a certain legal framework alleviates our ethical concerns.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Newton Oliveira Lima

RESUMOO poder do Estado como poder mítico se produz enquanto estrutura simbólica justificada, em que o Direito é produzido como Direito do Estado e se justifica discursivamente pela produção de valores como ideias a atingir (dever ser). A visão neokantiana sobre o Estado é o sistema simbólico que sustenta o Estado, implica em perceber o Estado como “mito” místico e hermenêutico produzido por um conjunto de entrelaçamentos de valores de fundo cultural que projetam uma estrutura objetivada de fins e de perspectivas de concretização de ideias (dever ser) que pretendem significar o que é o Estado apresentando sua forma simbólica (o nazismo foi a maior projeção simbólica e mística do Estado no século XX através da ideologia mística racista). Partimos da hipótese de que a ação do poder real das relações sociais estabelece um dualismo porque se apropria do discurso de fundamentação sobre o Direito, pretensa ordem justa deontológica de valores, e na prática age através do Estado como poder efetivo, violento e coercivo que pretende se justificar discursivamente. A ordem de valores que justifica o Estado é na Pós-Modernidade uma ordem laica de valores que assoma a partir da crise da legitimação do discurso religioso nos domínios do ataque moderno à esfera teológica de conhecimento e de poder. Diante da falência do Estado como poder simbólico e da relativização histórica dos valores, resta ao discurso de legitimação simbólica dos valores jurídicos o meio discursivo e procedimental, patamar alcançado por Radbruch enquanto neokantiano axiológico de Baden.ABSTRACTThe power of the State as a mythic power is produced as a justified symbolic structure, in which the Law is produced as the Law’s Empire and is discursively justified with the production of values as ideas to achieve goals (deontology of values). The neokantism view of the State is of a symbolic system that sustains the State, it concerns perceiving the State as mystique and hermeneutic 'myth' produced by a set of interlacement of values with cultural basis that design a structure of goals and prospects of achieving ideas (deontology) that signify what is the State presenting its symbolic formalization (Nazism was the greatest symbolic and mystical projection of the State in the twentieth century through racist mystical ideology). We think that the action of the real power of social relations establishes a dualism because it appropriates itself of the discourse of rationality about the Law, alleged just order of ethical values claims, and acts through the State as a effective power, violent and coercive, that wants to be justified discursively. The order of values that justifies the State in Post-Modernity is an order of secular values looming from the crisis of religious legitimacy discourse in the fields of a modern attack to the theological space of knowledge and power. Given the failure of the State as symbolic power and historical relativity of values, remains the discourse of legitimation symbolic values through the legal and procedural discourse, a level reached by Radbruch while later the axiological neokantism of Baden.


1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Lipkind

Writing in 1912, Bertrand Russell declared talk of causes and of causality to be obsolete, noting its elimination from scientific theory as he saw it: “in advanced sciences such as gravitational astronomy, the word 'cause' never occurs .... The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.” Causal laws, he claimed, “tend to be replaced by quite different laws as soon as a science is successful.”


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-201
Author(s):  
SHIV KUMAR SHARMA

??? ???????????? ???? ??????????, ???????????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ?[1]  Maha         Upanishad of Sam Veda tradition propounds that for noble persons who know the supreme truth, whole world is one family. Ancient Indians believed in sarve bhavantu sukhina or happiness of globe. When these Vedic principles are read with the eternal law of Dharma, concept of Vedic Bhumandalikaran (globalisation based on values of Veda) evolves. English philosopher Jeremy Bentham formulated, ‘greatest happiness of the greatest number’. Western 'primum non nocere' means first do no harm. John Stuart Mill stressed that power can be applied upon any member of society only to prevent harm. But LPGC- Liberalization, privatization and globalization when associate with corruption prepare the way for exploitation of some by others. Corruptocracy in the name of democracy and capitalism in the name of development have become tools of ‘minimum number of elites to swallow the share of maximum numbers’. In the contemporary materialistic and selfish world high ethical values are losing their significance. Accumulation of wealth not only for the use of oneself but for increasing red tapes has become ‘modern way of life’. This status improving property of wealth alarmingly proliferating outlawed traits among people of the world.   **** [1] Mantra VI-72, Maha Upanishad of Sam Veda legacy


2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Leslie ◽  
Mary Casper

“My patient refuses thickened liquids, should I discharge them from my caseload?” A version of this question appears at least weekly on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Community pages. People talk of respecting the patient's right to be non-compliant with speech-language pathology recommendations. We challenge use of the word “respect” and calling a patient “non-compliant” in the same sentence: does use of the latter term preclude the former? In this article we will share our reflections on why we are interested in these so called “ethical challenges” from a personal case level to what our professional duty requires of us. Our proposal is that the problems that we encounter are less to do with ethical or moral puzzles and usually due to inadequate communication. We will outline resources that clinicians may use to support their work from what seems to be a straightforward case to those that are mired in complexity. And we will tackle fears and facts regarding litigation and the law.


2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (16) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
BETSY BATES FREED
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