Search results for "Paternalism"

“Selling” chronic pain: physiotherapists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of chronic nonspecific lower back pain to their patients

2019

Introduction: Chronic nonspecific lower back pain (CNSLBP) is a common musculoskeletal condition which can be a source of significant distress and disability for patients. Approaches to managing CNSLBP have been explored in healthcare literature, as has the importance of communication in physiotherapy practice. However, no previous studies have explored clinicians’ experiences of communicating their understanding of this diagnosis to their patients. Methods: A qualitative research design, using hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, was employed. Five participants were purposively recruited for the research and data collected via semi-structured interviews. Interpretative phenomenologica…

La problematica incriminazione dell'istigazione e aiuto al suicidio. Possibilità e limiti del principio di solidarietà.

2018

Il contributo intende indagare le possibili connessioni tra il principio di solidarietà ed i contenuti ed i limiti delle fattispecie incriminatrici, e fa ciò concentrandosi sulla norma di parte speciale relativa all’istigazione e aiuto al suicidio. Tale disposizione, infatti, presenta una struttura ed una ratio che tradiscono la visione corporativa del legislatore del ’30, che caricava l’atto suicida di disvalore basandosi su una visione della vita del singolo indicizzata ad un interesse statale preminente. Con l’affermarsi della Costituzione e del principio personalista la visione del legislatore codicistico deve considerarsi del tutto abbandonata, ciò nonostante l’incriminazione in commen…

Contra el paternalismo juridico

2020

En extrema síntesis, el paternalismo jurídico sostiene que el Estado tiene derecho a limitar la libertad del individuo, a través de la coacción –por ejemplo, sanciones penales–, para tutelar (aquello que se pretende que constituye) el bien del individuo mismo, con el fin de impedir que se cause un daño, incluso si no causa un daño a terceros. De acuerdo con el antipaternalismo jurídico moderado, en extrema síntesis, el Estado no tiene derecho a usar la coacción para limitar las elecciones, racionales y libres de constricciones, de un individuo adulto, incluso allí donde estas elecciones le causen (aquello que se pretende que constituye) un daño, por ejemplo, físico o psicofísico, al individ…

ESISTE IL PATERNALISMO PENALE? UN CONTRIBUTO AL DIBATTITO SUI PRINCIPI DI CRIMINALIZZAZIONE

2014

Da tempo si discute se il paternalismo penale costituisca un principio di crimina- lizzazione compatibile con gli assunti di fondo del pensiero liberale. Nell’articolo si sostiene che, in realtà, esso non costituisce un autonomo principio di criminaliz- zazione. Dopo aver distinto tra p. tutorio e p. dispotico, vi si mostra, innanzitutto, come il primo sia manifestazione del principio del danno. Anche il secondo, si sostiene, costituisce un finto avversario per il liberalismo: le incriminazioni che ne costituirebbero espressione o hanno un fondamento moralistico (e andrebbero perciò ‘combattute’ come forme di moralismo giuridico) oppure sviluppano, anche esse, la stessa logica del principio…

Two Types of Liberal Perfectionism*

2005

Since the publication of J. Raz’s Morality of Freedom (Raz 1986), liberalism has often been interpreted as a perfectionist political morality.1 The starting point of this analysis is the refusal, by Raz and other philosophers, of the distinction between theories of the good and theories of justice. According to these authors, liberalism as a theory of justice or, as it was later considered, as a “political doctrine,” faces many theoretical difficulties: the issue of neutrality, the problematic distinction between comprehensive moral doctrine and a merely political account of legitimacy, the vagueness of the concept of “citizen,” the relationship between liberal and non-liberal moral culture…

Bioetica, sacralità della vita e virtù. Osservazioni critiche su un recente libro di M. La Torre

2022

In this paper, some critical remarks on M. La Torre’s book, Bioetica in tempo di pandemia are exposed. These remarks concerns: 1) the justification of paternalism according to La Torre’s liberal account of bioethics. If paternalism is justified then it is open to debate in which sense his proposal can be labelled as “liberal”; 2) what one earns with assuming that in order to solve conflicts of values we should prefer moral specificationism in front of Alexy’s balancing between legal principles. We will show that in arguing for specificationism La Torre tries to avoid the phenomenon of tragic choice, without succeeding; 3) the lack of clarity in depicting the idea of “sacred life”. This idea…

Communication skills in medicine: where do we come from and where are we going?

2015

The physician-patient relationship has changed throughout history, as the role of physician has been transformed. Modern physicians need to be educated on how to use highly specialized knowledge when approaching the patient as a unique and whole person living in a given psychological, social, and material context. This relationship evolved from a paternalistic model to a cooperative-deliberative one, representing a meeting between two “experts:” the physician as the medical expert and the patient as the expert on himself. According to this model, communication between patients and physicians must be based on common understanding in a caring and dynamic relationship that also involves the pa…

Poligamia e danno a se stessi

Teorie della coercizione, antipaternalismo e autonomia contrattuale

2013

In this article, I will examine the relations between antipaternalism and coercion theories. According to antipaternalism over himself, over his body and mind, the individual is sovereign, but if his actions are rational and free of coercion. Secondly, I will clarify if the so called unconscionability doctrine about contract law is antipaternalistic or not.

La forza dell’argomento peggiore. La retorica paternalista nell’argomentazione morale e giuridica

2012

In this essay, I shall analyze some arguments advanced for legal paternalism, which are fallacious or rationally insufficient. Some of the worst arguments for legal paternalism. For example, the argument of life’s sacred value, the argument of human dignity or the argument of common good. Why it is important to defend legal antipaternalism against these arguments? Because they are, in spite of their weakness, rhetorically very used in philosophical, ethical, legal, judicial debate. They likely dissimulate other arguments considered less persuasive, like the theological argument or the moral perfectionist argument for legal paternalism