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The Duty of the Patient to Cooperate

  • Jörg Löschke
Published/Copyright: February 16, 2017
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Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik
From the journal Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik Volume 21 Issue 1

Abstract

In discussing the normative implications of the doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics has mostly focused on the duties of doctors to their patients. This focus neglects an important normative dimension of the doctorpatient- relationship, namely the duties of patients to doctors. Only few authors have discussed the content and ground of the moral duties of patients, and each of these accounts are wanting in some way. This paper discusses patients’ duties and argues that patients have a relationship-dependent obligation to cooperate with the doctor, because doctors have a morally justified interest in fulfilling their moral role obligations as doctors, and by not cooperating, patients make it more difficult for doctors to fulfill their moral obligations. In some cases, failing to cooperate might even create an avoidable moral dilemma for the doctor.

Keywords : Patients’ Duties; Doctors’ Duties; Role Obligations; Doctor-Patient Relationship; Principlism
Online erschienen: 2017-2-16
Erschienen im Druck: 2017-2-1

© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/jwiet-2017-0103
Keywords for this article
Patients’ Duties; Doctors’ Duties; Role Obligations; Doctor-Patient Relationship; Principlism

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Inhalt
  3. Editorial
  4. Beiträge
  5. The Duty of the Patient to Cooperate
  6. Inhärentes oder externes ethos der Medizin?
  7. Ethische Aspekte des Off-Label-Use
  8. Enhancement: Ein Begriff zwischen Definitionshoheiten?
  9. Die menschliche Natur und ihr Wert
  10. Themenschwerpunkt: Klimaethik
  11. Zur Zukunft der Klimaethik
  12. The Tasks of Climate Related Energy Ethics – The Example of Carbon Capture and Storage
  13. Justifying Climate Engineering?
  14. Zur Ethik (intergenerationeller) Risikoauferlegung
  15. Democracy for the Future: A Conceptual Framework to Assess Institutional Reform
  16. Dokumentationen
  17. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) Genomchirurgie beim Menschen – Zur verantwortlichen Bewertung einer neuen Technologie
  18. European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) Statement on Gene Editing
  19. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Association of Medical Research Charities, Cancer Research UK, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Medical Research Council, Progress Educational Trust, Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK) Genome Editing in Human Cells – Initial Joint Statement
  20. The Hinxton Group Statement on Genome Editing Technologies and Human Germline Genetic Modification
  21. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (USA) On Human Gene Editing: International Summit Statement
  22. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, Union der Deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften Akademien nehmen Stellung zu Fortschritten der molekularen Züchtung und zum erwogenen nationalen Anbauverbot gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen
  23. Eidgenössische Ethikkommission für die Biotechnologie im Ausserhumanbereich (EKAH, Schweiz) Invasive gebietsfremde Arten: Anhörung zur nationalen Strategie
  24. Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica (CNB, Italy) Mobile Health Apps: Bioethical Aspects
  25. Comité Consultatif National d’Éthique (CCNE, France) Opinion N°123 – Ethical Queries and Observations Concerning Permanent Deferral from Blood Donation for Men Disclosing Sexual Relations on One or More Occasions with Another Man/Other Men
  26. Deutscher Ethikrat Embryospende, Embryoadoption und elterliche Verantwortung
  27. Eidgenössische Ethikkommission für die Biotechnologie im Ausserhumanbereich (EKAH, Schweiz) Forschungsfreiheit und Biosicherheit
  28. Nuffield Council on Bioethics (UK) Children and Clinical Research: Ethical Issues
  29. The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics (SMER, Sweden) Robots and Surveillance in Health Care of the Elderly – Ethical Aspects
  30. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (USA) Ethics and Ebola
  31. Verzeichnis der Autorinnen, Autoren und Organisationen
  32. Hinweise für Autorinnen und Autoren
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