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  • 标题:The power of suggestion
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  • 作者:Mara Buchbinder
  • 期刊名称:Medicine Anthropology Theory
  • 电子版ISSN:2405-691X
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:6
  • 期号:1
  • DOI:10.17157/mat.6.1.645
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:University of Edinburgh Library
  • 摘要:This article examines an ethical controversy that has received relatively little attention in public debates about the legalization of medical aid-in-dying (AID): should physicians inform patients that they have the option of hastening death? Drawing on ethnographic research about the implementation of AID in Vermont, I argue that how we understand the moral stakes of this debate depends on divergent views regarding language use in social interactions. Some stakeholders in this debate view a physician’s words as powerful enough to damage the patient-physician relationship or to influence a patient to hasten her death, while others believe that merely informing patients about AID cannot move them to act against their own values and preferences. I illustrate how these divergent perspectives are tied to competing language ideologies regarding clinical disclosure, which I call ‘disclosure ideologies’. My analysis of these two disclosure ideologies surrounding AID highlights disclosure practices in medicine as a rich site for medical anthropological theorizing on linguistic performativity and the social power of clinical language.
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