Wardrope, A. and Reuber, M. (2016) Diagnosis by Documentary: Professional Responsibilities in Informal Encounters. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16 (11). pp. 40-50. ISSN 1526-5161
Abstract
Most work addressing clinical workers' professional responsibilities concerns the norms of conduct within established professional-patient relationships, but such responsibilities may extend beyond the clinical context. We explore health workers' professional responsibilities in such "informal" encounters through the example of a doctor witnessing the misdiagnosis and mistreatment of a serious long-term condition in a television documentary, arguing that neither internalist approaches to professional responsibility (such as virtue ethics or care ethics) nor externalist ones (such as the "social contract" model) provide sufficiently clear guidance in such situations. We propose that a mix of both approaches, emphasizing the noncomplacency and practical wisdom of virtue ethics, but grounding the normative authority of virtue in an external source, is able to engage with the health worker's responsibilities in such situations to the individual, the health care system, and the population at large.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in American Journal of Bioethics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | epilepsy; informal medicine; nonepileptic seizures; professionalism; virtue ethics |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > The Medical School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2016 11:23 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2017 22:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2016.1222008 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/15265161.2016.1222008 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106623 |