The significance of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of responsibility for medical judgment.
Journal
Medicine, health care, and philosophy
ISSN: 1572-8633
Titre abrégé: Med Health Care Philos
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9815900
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
30
03
2021
accepted:
22
03
2022
revised:
21
03
2022
pubmed:
1
8
2022
medline:
2
9
2022
entrez:
31
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
At a time when the practice of medicine is subject to technical and biopolitical imperatives that give rise to defensive bioethics, it is essential to revitalize the ethical dimensions of care at the very heart of the clinic, in order to give new meaning to the moral responsibility that inhabits it. This contribution seeks to meet this challenge by drawing on the ethical resources of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In Levinas' view, ethical responsibility is the response to the injunction, the interpellation, of the other's face, and humaneness is conceived entangled in the other's face. Against this background, I suggest that Levinas' philosophical insight constitutes a turning point from a traditional to a new conception of responsibility that may bear great significance to a renewed understanding of an hermeneutics and an ethics of care. By drawing on this aspect of Levinas' thought, I would like to reveal the ethical core of an ethics of clinical care that shapes a new insight on medical judgment.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35909196
doi: 10.1007/s11019-022-10077-0
pii: 10.1007/s11019-022-10077-0
pmc: PMC9427920
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
327-332Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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