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Quote from MD list
"Whether a [mental] patient can be treated against his will (very rare indeed) or
whether a [mental] patient should be manipulated into accepting
treatment they would otherwise reject (probably a lot less rare although
very difficult to determine) are extremely problematic ethical issues. I
can't see that the MoQ helps here so I will shut up."
<End Quote>
What would the MoQ say here? It threw me for a bit of a loop trying to
work this one out--- so I propose:
What does the MoQ have to say about medical ethics? --- Should we force
mental patients to undergo treatments they may not want??? What about
Euthanasia??? Or Cloning for spare parts.... Pirsig's (extremely
unimpressive) example of the moral conflict between the doctor and the germ
shows us that he believes the MoQ should be able to deduce the answers to
these ethical cunundrums. Certainly the INTELLECTUAL will have something to
say about what SOCIETY should and shouldn't do medically.... What do you
say?
Rick
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