Vulnerable Dignity, Dignified Vulnerability

Intertwining of Ethical Principles in End-of-Life Care

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15480871
AutoresJosé María Muñoz Terrón (0000-0002-0584-1840, University of Almería, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas482-482
Fecha de publicación2021-01-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph18020482
PMID33435269
OpenAlexW3120942615
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas12

The aim of this article is to analyze how dignity and vulnerability, as declared principles of bioethics, both can be seen in a new light when they are thought of together, in their intertwining, in order to outline a proposal for an analytical framework for end-of-life care. It is thus shown, on the one hand, that the demand for respect for the equal dignity of every person, linked by the different anthropological and ethical theories to their autonomy as a rational agent, also refers to their fragile, vulnerable, and interdependent character, as an embodied subjectivity, sustained by a complex web of care. On the other hand, the vulnerability of these selves as others, constituted by the radical appeal of everything that affects them socially, emotionally, sensitively, and by their need for recognition and attention, would be pathological if it did not include the impulse towards autonomy, which, although precarious and connotative, requires dignified and equitable treatment. This intertwining of both principles points to a phenomenological conception of the person as a corporeal social existence, from which a number of studies on the attention to dignity and vulnerability at the end of life are analyzed

Autonomy · Bioethics · Dignity · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Personhood · Political science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology