Well-being: An Ambiguous Ethical Dilemma

The philosopher Emmanuel Fournier examines the ethics of the care relationship between healthcare professionals and patients. Medical ethics, healthcare ethics, and perhaps ethics in general. He warns of the dangers inherent in the concept of “beneficence,” questioning its recent iteration, “well-treatment,” as opposed to mistreatment. As generous as it may be, the—tempting—notion of “bientraitance,” when brandished as a label, leaves one perplexed both in its goals of fighting evil and in its aspirations to “do good.” A situation that should lead us to reexamine ethics in light of the eternal risk it faces: that of falling into the traps of moralistic morality or normative deontology.

Author(s): Fournier Emmanuel

Publishing year: 2020

Pages: 10-12

Health in Action, 2020, n° 453, p. 10-12

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