Resisting the siren call of individualism in pediatric decision-making and the role of relational interests

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Erica K Salter

Abstract

The siren call of individualism is compelling. And although we have recognized its dangerous allure in the realm of adult decision-making, it has had profound and yet unnoticed dangerous effects in pediatric decision-making as well. Liberal individualism as instantiated in the best interest standard conceptualizes the child as independent and unencumbered and the goal of child rearing as rational autonomous adulthood, a characterization that is both ontologically false and normatively dangerous. Although a notion of the individuated child might have a place in establishing a threshold of care obligated and enforced by the state, beyond this context we should turn our attention more explicitly to the relational interests of children.

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Jan 11, 2014·The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy·Laurence B McCullough
Jun 4, 2017·HEC Forum : an Interdisciplinary Journal on Hospitals' Ethical and Legal Issues·Erica K Salter
Aug 14, 2019·Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics·D Robert MacDougall
Jun 24, 2017·HEC Forum : an Interdisciplinary Journal on Hospitals' Ethical and Legal Issues·Erica K Salter
Apr 20, 2018·Acta Paediatrica·Brian S Carter
Feb 24, 2021·The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB·Amy E Caruso Brown

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