| Shall I become a zombie? Stories of illness, ethical dilemmas and visions of society. | |
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PMID: 21560776 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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Three controversial ethical issues, among others, stir the debate in health care institutions, in medical associations, and in the whole society: the care of patients in persistent vegetative state, the regulation of artificial procreation, some individual requests for reshaping an healthy body. Dealing with these dilemmas, typical of advanced medical science and technological practice, implies not only balancing carefully the burdens and benefits for suffering persons, families, equipes, hospitals, cultural and religious communities, but also imaging and realizing new visions of a just society, of a beneficent (without paternalism) medicine and generally of a good life, where each moral agent could write in front of all and in worthy, convincing ways, the next chapter of the book of his/her own life. |
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Paolo Cattorini |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Medicina nei secoli Volume: 21 ISSN: 0394-9001 ISO Abbreviation: Med Secoli Publication Date: 2009 |
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Created Date: 2011-05-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0176472 Medline TA: Med Secoli Country: Italy |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1017-35 Citation Subset: QIS |
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State University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. paolo.cattorini@uninsubria.it |
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