The Need for Dialogical Encounter: An Account of Christian Parents’ Making Decisions on Behalf of Their Severely Handicapped Child
In this article, a Christian couple narrates their experience of the medical system during the pregnancy, birth, and death of their severely handicapped daughter, focusing on key ethical decisions relating to prenatal testing, DNR orders, and withdrawal of treatment. The nature of the modern plurali...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 376-389 |
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| Summary: | In this article, a Christian couple narrates their experience of the medical system during the pregnancy, birth, and death of their severely handicapped daughter, focusing on key ethical decisions relating to prenatal testing, DNR orders, and withdrawal of treatment. The nature of the modern pluralist, consumer–patient-oriented system is reflected on and a resulting sense of isolation described. Using the work of literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, a paradigm of “dialogical encounter” is proposed as a way of minimizing the isolation and stress due to life and death decision making. Some practical ways of implementing such a dialogical encounter are suggested. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbu025 |