Compassion and responsibility for disease: Trump, tragedy and mercy
Thinking about compassion helps to illuminate what is pernicious and beneficial about emphasizing personal responsibility for health. This article considers whether it is compassionate' to see someone's disease as an embodiment of past faults. Two traditions, one Aristotelian-tragedic and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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| In: |
Theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 121, Issue: 2, Pages: 102-111 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics RG Pastoral care ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Disease
B Aquinas B collaborative deliberation B Compassion B Mercy B Responsibility B Tragedy |
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| Summary: | Thinking about compassion helps to illuminate what is pernicious and beneficial about emphasizing personal responsibility for health. This article considers whether it is compassionate' to see someone's disease as an embodiment of past faults. Two traditions, one Aristotelian-tragedic and the other Thomist and merciful, yield two ideas of compassion. The argument is that disease should not be conceived as something for which one is responsible in a way which risks the possibility of receiving treatment. But preventive medicine is conceived as a moral endeavour intertwined with the pastoral care of the sick, with discretion as to the manner and timing of any focus on responsibility. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X17740527 |