Persuasion at the bedside: what can clinicians do to help patients make decisions?
Over the past 50 years, the idea that patients have the right to make decisions about their own medical care has become a, if not the, central tenet of clinical medicine. In recent years, however, a series of scholars have argued that some degree of clinician paternalism—where the clinician intercedes in the patient’s decision for the patient’s own good—is OK. Join Carleton Connects and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Daniel Groll for “Persuasion at the bedside: what can clinicians do to help patients make decisions?” He will explore the issues of autonomy and paternalism in clinical medicine and offer a framework for understanding the different ways we might think about the role of the clinician in a clinical encounter.
This program took place on Tuesday, November 25, 2014
About the Speaker
Daniel joined the Carleton College philosophy department in fall 2009 after completing his PhD at the University of Chicago. Daniel works in ethics, with a particular interest in normative ethics and bioethics. Outside of academia, Daniel fronts popular “prof rock” band The Counterfactuals.
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Persuasion at the Bedside: What can clinicians do to help patients make decisions? (65 KB PDF Document)
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