Medicine against Suicide: Sustaining Solidarity with Those Diminished by Illness and Debility

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Farr A Curlin, Christopher Tollefsen
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Abstract

The medical profession’s increasing acceptance of “physician aid-in-dying” indicates the ascendancy of what we call the provider-of-services model for medicine, in which medical “providers” offer services to help patients maximize their “well-being” according to the wishes of the patient. This model contrasts with and contradicts what we call the Way of Medicine, in which medicine is a moral practice oriented to the patient’s health. A steadfast refusal intentionally to harm or kill is a touchstone of the Way of Medicine, one unambiguously affirmed by Christians through the centuries. Moreover, physician aid-in-dying contradicts one of the distinctive contributions that the Christian era brought to medicine, namely, a taken-for-granted solidarity between medical practitioners and those suffering illness and disability. Insofar as medical practitioners cooperate in aid-in-dying, they contradict this solidarity and undermine the trust that patients need to allow themselves to be cared for by physicians when they are sick and debilitated.
防止自杀的医学:与那些因疾病和衰弱而减少的人保持团结
医学界越来越多地接受“医生协助死亡”,这表明我们所说的医疗服务提供者模式占据了优势,在这种模式下,医疗“提供者”根据患者的意愿提供服务,帮助患者最大限度地实现“幸福”。这种模式与我们所说的“医学之道”形成对比,并与之相矛盾。在“医学之道”中,医学是一种以病人健康为导向的道德实践。坚定地拒绝故意伤害或杀戮是医学之道的试金石,几个世纪以来,基督徒都毫不含糊地肯定了这一点。此外,医生协助死亡与基督教时代给医学带来的一个独特贡献相矛盾,即医生与那些患有疾病和残疾的人之间理所当然的团结。只要医疗从业者在协助死亡方面进行合作,他们就违背了这种团结,破坏了病人在生病和虚弱时需要允许医生照顾自己的信任。
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