Patient decision-making: medical ethics and mediation.
Open Access
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 22 (3) , 164-167
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.22.3.164
Abstract
A review of medical ethics literature relating to the importance of the participation of patients in decision-making introduces the role of rights-based mediation as a voluntary process now being developed innovatively in America. This is discussed in relation to the theory of communicative ethics and moral personhood. References are then made to the work of medical ethics committees and the role of mediation within these. Finally it is suggested that mediation is part of an eirenic ethic already being used informally in good patient care, and that there is a case for developing it further.Keywords
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