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MEDICAL PATERNALISM Student’s Name Institution’s Name Date Medical Paternalism Governments have and are still progressively calling upon the introduction of policies that are designed to make changes to the way people behave. This is especially the case as more get aware of the cost the society and the individuals are bound to incur due to individual’s certain behavior like; consumption of unhealthy food gambling tobacco smoking and alcohol abuse. Countries such as the United States and Australia have increased their policy to focus on such areas like preventive health regulation of gambling as well as behaviorally-based health reform. and Kant's Theory need to be limited on personal impacts (Pope 2005). Should the outcome of a given action affect the other people other the one directly involved in beneficence or benevolence then the paternalist policies could be enforced to safeguard other people. References Murphy Liam B. (1993). “The Demands of Beneficence ” Philosophy and Public Affairs 22: 267–92. Pope T. (2005). ‘Is public health paternalism really never justified? A response to Joel Feinberg’ Oklahoma City University Law Review 30:1 p. 123. Thaler Richard H. & Cass Sunstein. R. (2003). “Libertarian Paternalism ” American Economics Review 93: 175–79 [...]
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what some of the factors are that can make paternalism seem both uncontroversial and difficult and shows how some of these are related to our sometimes incompatible moral respect for beneficence and autonomy. You may want to try and frame things around one of the controversial paternal practices (e.g. seat belt laws, cesarean sections, surrogate decision making, and, children and refusing treatment on religious grounds). focusing on Kant’s deontological and Mill’s utilitarian moral theories principles of autonomy and beneficence and how they can conflict.
Subject Area: Philosophy
Document Type: Reports
