Is the desire for a child too strong? or Is there a right to a child of one’s own?
Elisabeth Hildt, Dietmar Mieth in In Vitro Fertilisation in the 1990s, 2018
A differentiated analysis of rights and duties in the field of sterility and treatments of infertility (cf. Baertschi, 1996, p.34) shows the limits of ethical argumentation because there can be no medical or social management of strong desires. Obviously we have to combine different types of moral philosophy: social ethics (ethics of rights) and an ethics of individual well-being (ethics of desire) (cf. Bond 1996). As far as I know an encouraging and therapeutical ethics of desire has still to be written. Will this be possible within the limits of a liberal theory of justice? Can ethics itself be a therapeutical science? I hope that the preliminary remarks and open questions of this paper illustrate some of the aspects of a double strategy that I would like to suggest. As so often the case, it will be a walk on a slippery slope because a good and strong desire can always be misused and instrumentalised for undesirable purposes. It is a special feature of new reproductive technologies that the most intimate hopes and emotions are in closest proximity to a cool rationality which has an increasing control over life and death and over the definition of the desirable and the undesirable. The only remedy that ethics can offer is the invitation to try several points of view. Usually there is more than one way of coping with a difficult situation and with the promises and limits of medical feasibility.
Philosophical backgrounds
Gerrit Glas in Person-Centered Care in Psychiatry, 2019
With respect to the solutions that have been proposed, there are similarities between what virtue-ethicists like Charles Taylor propose and the analyses and suggestions that were made with respect to professionalism as a normative practice. The virtue-ethical variant of social ethics and political philosophy is known as communitarianism. Communitarianists like Charles Taylor plead for new forms of social engagement. Taylor thinks that the modern subject is not completely dissociated from his or her spiritual sources. These sources traditionally provided the motivation and inspiration to counteract tendencies to egoism, indifference, and exploitation. New forms of social engagement have a chance if society finds a way to re-establish and invigorate the connections with these sources. This inevitably occurs in a pluralistic way today.
Social justice and public health
Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alex Broadbent in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health, 2023
Despite the centrality of social justice to public health, it is important to note at the outset that ethical issues and obligations in public health can be thought of in ways according to criteria other than what can be called “just-making,” including other “right-making” criteria or justifications (for example, beneficence, efficiency, and so on) (see Sridhar Venkatapuram’s chapter in this volume). In other words, just-making considerations are only one species of right-making considerations (Mill 1962 [1861]; Nozick 1974; Rawls 1999). While this may appear to be uncontroversial, some (for example, Plato) construe justice as closer to the whole of morality (Buchanan and Mathieu 1986). Others, like William Frankena, argue that “this seems to be distributing justice a little thin” (1966: 3). The latter view—that justice is a large part but not all of morality/ethics, particularly social ethics—is adopted in this chapter.
Comparing the levels of hospital’s social accountability: Based on ownership
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2018
Ghahraman Mahmoudi, Mohammad Ali Jahani, Fatemeh Hoseini Rostami, Shahrbanoo Mahmoudjanloo, Hoseinali Nikbakht
The corporate social responsibility is a concept that describes diverse strategies aiming ethical, environmental, and social standards. On the other hand, analyzing corporate social responsibility methods may help political goals of health and studying their potential outcomes [8]. In health section, corporate social responsibility means ethical commitment that hospitals should do something beneficial in issues such as serving quality services to everyone who is entitled to it [2]. A type of health care is socially accountable that it is accessible to all and fulfills patients and society’s health needs [9]. Social accountability is a tool for empowering the society to actively contribute in health-care section [10] and is based on cross work [11]. In addition, it is a social engagement in which society actively affects its health conditions and changes into significant improvements [12]. Practically, it includes a vast variety of innovative and creative practices [13]. Social accountability can positively affect patient-oriented health-care services such as maintaining patients’ privacy, information confidentiality, respectful care, and improved community engagement in monitoring health services and increased service use, quality, and effectiveness [14]. Increase in the social accountability of health-care organizations can increase public health, patients’ satisfaction, high-quality service, and so on [6].
There’s No Harm in Talking: Re-Establishing the Relationship Between Theological and Secular Bioethics
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2020
Michael McCarthy, Mary Homan, Michael Rozier
Despite the religious and secular silos that have developed within bioethics, dialogue around questions of inequality and injustice provide a fruitful starting point for reestablishing a public and pluralistic dialogue. A Christian anthropological vision of the human person centered on an understanding of human dignity, sin, and the common good provide a unique perspective to pursue the social ethics concerns raised by many secular bioethicists. While our approach to theological bioethics does not solve the problems within clinical care, biomedical research, and public health ethics, it does lay important ground work for collaborative dialogue on seemingly intractable issues. If we can find common ground in agreeing that the world is not as it should be, there is no harm in talking about how to make it better.
A framework for measuring sustainability in healthcare systems
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2020
Omar Awad AlJaberi, Matloub Hussain, Paul R. Drake
CSR is defined as ‘a commitment to improve community wellbeing through discretionary business practices and contributions of corporate resources’ [45]. In addition, the added values and improved competitive position resulting from the improvement of economic, social, and environmental factors via active and voluntary contributions of companies can be referred to as CSR [46]. According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large.
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