PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Professional, Exact Sciences, Tauber

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Devin Shaw

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Note: although these are patient views, the views/goals of the healthcare provider are also important in determining the relationship. These views include: healthcare provider to consumer view this view could describe that the relationship is a commercial venture with minimal ethical obligations. Hand" because they know what"s best for the patient: this model relieves the patient of their dignity and respect and leaves the power with the doctors. This would contradict a typical feminist ethical view: it has 3 flawed" assumptions; That the goals of medicine are clear, so that doctors know what"s best for patients. That giving diagnosis and prognosis is an exact science. That all physicians are competent and know what is in their patients" best interests (68): the contractual model, acts as a median of the two above models. Recognizes the autonomy of the patient (ability to make decisions).