Physicians and obligatory social activism
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This essay examines the claim that physicians have a special obligation to engage in social and political activism. Four ethical paradigms are considered. Two paradigms, the preventive medicine and the social medicine models, embody a limited professional obligation to advocate the priority of health in society; the justification for a more aggressive stance is limited by the failings of paternalism. The radical model and the heroic model speak to issues of personal virtue rather than professional obligation; they are not strictly comparable.
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center United States
Moral Obligations, Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Social Values, Politics, Social Justice, Physicians, Virtues, Humans, Sociology, Medical, Ethics, Medical, Preventive Medicine, Public Health, Physician's Role, Conscience, Nuclear Warfare
Moral Obligations, Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Social Values, Politics, Social Justice, Physicians, Virtues, Humans, Sociology, Medical, Ethics, Medical, Preventive Medicine, Public Health, Physician's Role, Conscience, Nuclear Warfare
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