Roger C. Sider

Patients' ethical obligation for their health.

In contemporary medical ethics health is rarely acknowledged to be an ethical obligation. This oversight is due to the preoccupation of most bioethicists with a rationalist, contract model for ethics in which moral obligation is limited to truth-telling and promise-keeping. Such an ethics is poorly suited to medicine because it fails to appreciate that medicines basis as a moral enterprise is oriented towards health values. A naturalistic model for medical ethics is proposed which builds upon biological and medical values. This perspective clarifies ethical obligations to ourselves and to others for life and health. It provides a normative framework for the doctor-patient relationship within which to formulate medical advice and by which to evaluate patient choice.

The ethics of therapeutic modality choice.

Psychiatrists usually select therapeutic modalities for their patients on the basis of empirical and theoretical considerations. Only in special circumstances (e.g., psychosurgery) are ethical concerns primary. Yet every therapeutic decision involves questions of value and requires ethical justification. The author outlines four resources for ethical direction in therapy: a general systems or biopsychosocial formulation of the clinical problem, the historic ethical commitments of the medical profession, the patients informed perspective, and the psychiatrists own values. Finally, a method is proposed for the resolution of conflicts among these four perspectives in individual cases.

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