[Assistance for a good life: the trend towards wish-fulfilling medicine].
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Biomedical Enhancement↗
Biomedical subjects
Matthias Kettner
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["Medicine of desire" between commercialization and patient-centeredness].
DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM: Ample evidence points to an emerging new self-understanding within medical practice, away from the established goals of medicine towards greater responsiveness to individual preferences. ARGUMENTS: The altered self-understanding of medical practice unfettered by indications grounded in concepts of disease can be conceptually characterized as desire-driven medicine, or "medicine of desire." This raises the question of morally justifiable limits for the normative governance of a medicine of desire. CONCLUSION: In liberal societies, only two forms of argumentation seem promising for setting limits to the provision and consumption of what a medicine of desire has to offer: Arguments that place expected benefit into the perspective of risks, and arguments that probe the coherence of desires and their fulfillment against the background of a person's conception of a good life for that person.
Attitude to Health↗
[Twice the moral self-knowledge].
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Humans↗
Identifying moral perplexity in reproductive medicine: a discourse ethics rationale.
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Consensus↗