As the world of medicine changes in the United States, its founding principles become more daily compromised and challenged. Medical ethics have become defined by limiting, human institutes such as the Code of Medical Ethics by the American Medical Association,…
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This past week, health care journalist Charles Ornstein wrote a compelling piece for the Washington Post detailing his personal experience with heart-wrenching end-of-life medical decisions. Ornstein’s story of his mother’s death highlights the complexity of this little-discussed topic, and should…
In The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, physician-philosopher Jeffrey Bishop argues that modern medicine has adopted a “metaphysics of efficient causation”–a focus on the immediate cause of things that ignores their ultimate purpose. As a…
