MORAL PRISMS: ETHICS AND THE OLDER PERSON

Bioethical discourse, as it relates to common experiences of older people, has tended to focus on conflictive issues as they arise in long-term care. The primary value that this discourse upholds is autonomy, understood as self-direction, and the method of analysis is generally principle -and rule-...

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Autor principal:	Holstein,Martha Beller
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile 2001
Materias:	Ethics aging embodiment Bioethics and long-term care
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spelling	oai:scielo:S1726-569X20010001000042014-05-22MORAL PRISMS: ETHICS AND THE OLDER PERSONHolstein,Martha Beller Ethics aging embodiment Bioethics and long-term care Bioethical discourse, as it relates to common experiences of older people, has tended to focus on conflictive issues as they arise in long-term care. The primary value that this discourse upholds is autonomy, understood as self-direction, and the method of analysis is generally principle -and rule- based. Many good changes in long-term care have come as the result of these efforts. But much of ethical importance is left out, limited by how this form of discourse defines and addresses problems. This paper explores a more expansive view of ethics that attends to context and the particular features of being an older person in often-inhospitable settings, takes embodiment as a key feature in our moral lives, and situates individuals in important relationships. Using narratives familiar to those who work with older people, especially in clinical settings, this paper will also suggest ways to reconfigure the familiar subject matter of bioethics and long-term care. It will challenge the dominance of existing values and so leave new spaces for ethical action. By bringing in culture, embodiment, and elder subjectivity, it will begin to move from the bioethics of long-term care to a concept of ethics and the older personinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCentro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de ChileActa bioethica v.7 n.1 20012001-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1726-569X2001000100004en10.4067/S1726-569X2001000100004
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description	Bioethical discourse, as it relates to common experiences of older people, has tended to focus on conflictive issues as they arise in long-term care. The primary value that this discourse upholds is autonomy, understood as self-direction, and the method of analysis is generally principle -and rule- based. Many good changes in long-term care have come as the result of these efforts. But much of ethical importance is left out, limited by how this form of discourse defines and addresses problems. This paper explores a more expansive view of ethics that attends to context and the particular features of being an older person in often-inhospitable settings, takes embodiment as a key feature in our moral lives, and situates individuals in important relationships. Using narratives familiar to those who work with older people, especially in clinical settings, this paper will also suggest ways to reconfigure the familiar subject matter of bioethics and long-term care. It will challenge the dominance of existing values and so leave new spaces for ethical action. By bringing in culture, embodiment, and elder subjectivity, it will begin to move from the bioethics of long-term care to a concept of ethics and the older person
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title	MORAL PRISMS: ETHICS AND THE OLDER PERSON
title_short	MORAL PRISMS: ETHICS AND THE OLDER PERSON
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publisher	Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile
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