Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach
This paper offers a general approach to ethics before considering its implications for the question of how to respond to religious preferences in healthcare, especially those of patients and healthcare workers. The first section outlines the two main components of the approach: (1) demoralizing, tha...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Bioethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-11 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NCB Personal ethics NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
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preferences
B Religious B Religion B Medical Ethics B demoralizing B Welfarism B within healthcare |
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| Summary: | This paper offers a general approach to ethics before considering its implications for the question of how to respond to religious preferences in healthcare, especially those of patients and healthcare workers. The first section outlines the two main components of the approach: (1) demoralizing, that is, seeking to avoid moral terminology in the discussion of reasons for action; (2) welfarism, the view that our ultimate reasons are grounded solely in the well-being of individuals. Section 2 elucidates the notion of religious preferences and describes the history and importance of their protection by human rights legislation. The following section defends the ‘Preference Principle’, according to which there is a reason to satisfy any preference (in so far as that satisfaction advances well-being). Section 4 discusses the implications of this principle for religious preferences in healthcare, again seeking to bring out the special social and political importance of respect, and respect for such preferences in particular. The paper ends with a brief description of how to approach such problems from the perspective of a demoralized welfarism. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Autonomy, well-being, justice, professional responsibility and personal values: A commentary on Roger Crisp, ‘Religious Preferences in Health Care: A Welfarist Approach’ (2023)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13114 |