PHL 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Virtue Ethics, Surrogate Decision-Maker, Bioethics
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Psychiatric patient scott starson was injected against his will with an anti-psychotic drug designed to treat his schizo-affective disorder. His mother, the substitute decision-maker, gave permission for his treatment: after he started to hallucinate and stopped eating, drinking. Two years earlier, starson won a supreme court of canada case upholding his right to refuse treatment. Terminology used in research reflect different ideas about the goals of medicine and the nature of the relationship between those who seek medical assistance and those who provide it. Veatch has distinguished 3 models of the doctor-patient relationship: each of the models describe ideal of the relationship and is designed to help us work through questions in theory and then in practice. A(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to this (cid:373)odel, do(cid:272)to(cid:396)s should thi(cid:374)k of the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es as applied s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tists, (cid:449)ho (cid:862)(cid:373)ust deal o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:449)ith fa(cid:272)ts and divorce themselves from all questions of value.
