RESUMEN
Although the clinical and the sexual are commonly treated as antithetical realms of experience, queer commentary teaches that the clinic is a positively sexual space and that clinical intimacy is a creative form of sexual intimacy. Contrary to writers such as Engelhardt, the clinic is a space where queer publics are forged, and the barriers between moral friends and moral strangers potentially dissolve, but only to the extent that one is disposed to allow oneself to enjoy experiences of identification that confound the ideals of human dignity typically invoked in writings about sexual ethics on the one hand and clinical medical ethics on the other hand.
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Instituciones de Salud , Filosofía , Conducta Sexual , Homosexualidad Masculina , Humanos , Masculino , Principios MoralesRESUMEN
Medical humanities purchases its presence on the medical side of university campuses by adopting as its own the ends of medicine and medical ethics. It even justifies its presence by asserting promotion of those ends as an ethical imperative, most of all to improve the caring in medical care. As unobjectionable, even praiseworthy, as this imperative appears, it actually constrains the possibilities for interpersonal relationship in the context of medical practice. Development of those possibilities requires openness of self to the existentially challenging ethical imperative to care also literally for nothing at all.
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Ética Médica , Humanidades/ética , Humanos , Relaciones Interpersonales , Amor , Obligaciones Morales , Identificación SocialAsunto(s)
Apoyo Vital Cardíaco Avanzado , Reanimación Cardiopulmonar , Toma de Decisiones/ética , Servicios Médicos de Urgencia , Inutilidad Médica , Opinión Pública , Órdenes de Resucitación , Directivas Anticipadas/ética , Apoyo Vital Cardíaco Avanzado/efectos adversos , Apoyo Vital Cardíaco Avanzado/ética , Apoyo Vital Cardíaco Avanzado/historia , Apoyo Vital Cardíaco Avanzado/tendencias , Reanimación Cardiopulmonar/efectos adversos , Reanimación Cardiopulmonar/ética , Reanimación Cardiopulmonar/historia , Reanimación Cardiopulmonar/tendencias , Conducta de Elección/ética , Servicios Médicos de Urgencia/ética , Servicios Médicos de Urgencia/normas , Servicios Médicos de Urgencia/tendencias , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Humanos , Consentimiento Presumido , Órdenes de Resucitación/ética , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Abstract:Narrative ethics has recently been advanced as an alternative to more "principled" and "theoretical" approaches to medical ethics. This turn prompts reflection on the distinctive activity of writing medical ethics. When writing medical ethics is recognized as a distinct activity, the forms of care it accomplishes can be distinguished from medical care. This distinction enables analysis of how caring for one's own needs as a writer of medical ethics is in productive tension with the ends of caring in medicine. One important good of writing medical ethics is that the act of writing forces one to reflect on the common mortal reality that is a condition of medical experience. Because it provides occasions for reflection on one's own mortality, medical ethics may no longer need immediate medical application in order to claim its contribution to caring.