Reframing patient-doctor relationships: relational autonomy and treating autonomy as a virtue
Despite extensive theoretical debate, concrete efforts to overcome paternalism and unbalanced power relations between patients and doctors have produced limited results. In this article, I examine and build on the concept of relational autonomy to reframe the patient-doctor relationship. Specificall...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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Journal of global ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-47 |
| Further subjects: | B
para-rationality
B Paternalism B Affectivity B relational autonomy B Individuality B Virtue B feminist relational theory B Feminist bioethics |
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| Summary: | Despite extensive theoretical debate, concrete efforts to overcome paternalism and unbalanced power relations between patients and doctors have produced limited results. In this article, I examine and build on the concept of relational autonomy to reframe the patient-doctor relationship. Specifically, I argue for an alternate form of autonomy anchored in Spinozism that recognises the relation between rationality and affectivity and moves away from the model of Cartesian dualism. I then use Filipino conceptions of individuality to explore treating autonomy as a systemic virtue, where ‘virtue’ is understood as a strength that requires support from systems of agency. In other words, autonomy as a systemic virtue is a practice of focusing on one’s power of acting that is sustained by supportive relationships between individuals and social institutions. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-9634 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2022.2053188 |