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Reflections on Medical Ethics

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 138)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65233-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-65232-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 9, 2021

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Of Ethics as Diplomacy

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 1 –18

[We are going to show that ethics belong to the register of diplomacy, that it is neither the same as moral points of view – with what morals could it be mixed to achieve its ends? – nor as religious or irreligious points of view, for the same reason. Though morals may have a strong rational...
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Ethics of Risk Taking in Psychiatry the Game of Risk and Probability

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 19 –38

[There is no medical situation that could escape risk taking; however the main characteristic of psychiatry is that the risk of a treatment or of a release from hospital -after involuntary commitment- is not only taken for the patient (as in other medical sectors); it is also taken with a view to...
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Ethics and the Notion of Potentiality

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 39 –57

[The category of potentiality is unloved in philosophy because it always seems to imply an implicit and dangerous return to the Aristotelian doctrine which was disposed of in the XVIIth century by thinkers like Galileo and Descartes, whether the issues were theoretical or practical. Yet in a...
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Blood – One of the Most Overlooked Issues in the Ethics of Care

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 59 –81

[Very often, but particularly in France, the free giving of blood is derived from the notion of person. Persons who need blood as a treatment would be respected by the free gift of other persons which take it for a duty. As honorable as this deduction may be, it seems too be false and it would be...
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Imaginary, Myth and Concept in Medical Ethics

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 83 –102

[So there is no possible ethics without mythical and imaginary components; as soon as we want to rationalize ethics it seems that we cannot help but leaving remains aside. But there must be an agreement on what is called mythical aspects of ethics. Sometimes, the matter is to assign to ethics...
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Medicine, Apparatuses, Robots and Intimacy: A Few Ethical and Political Aspects of the Linkage with Machines

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 103 –135

[Fortunately, far from J. Ellul and from M. Heidegger, contemporary ethics invoke no more humanism or religious convictions in order to reject technologies, as if they were hostile to man. We have learned and are always learning to live with machines on which, very often, our health and even our...
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Conclusion: Is Meeting a Reality or a Fiction? – A Few Epistemological Reflections on the Possibility of Constituting a Concept of Meeting

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 137 –157

[In the wake of the previous chapter, and taking the opposite of complaints and unquietness -though without forgetting them- of a world that fears having to deal only with robots and never more with beings of flesh and blood, we suggest that linkage and promiscuity with machines do not « destroy...
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Epilogue

Cléro, Jean-Pierre

Pages: 159 –163

[The epilogue added to the book was dictated by our sympathies with utilitarianism. A main prejudice lies in thinking that utilitarianism is a theory of happiness, or even of unbridled hedonism, inconsistent with the ethical issues we are dealing with today and which are seen as inherently global...

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