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Culture, Subjectivity, and the Ethics of Patient-Centered Pain Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

JAMES GIORDANO ,
JOAN C. ENGEBRETSON  and
ROLAND BENEDIKTER
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Even the most scientifically reductionist view of the individual reveals that we are complex systems nested within complex systems. These interactions within and among systems are based and depend on numerous variables of our (internal and external) environment(s). If we define ethics as a system of moral decision making, then it becomes clear that these decisions ultimately affect the situation(s) of managing our activities and relationships with others in our environment (in essence, our being in the world). Given that ecology literally means “a study or system of wisdom and reasoning about the interrelation of organisms in their environment or place of inhabitance,” Owen Flanagan's description of ethics as “human ecology” takes on considerable relevance and importance.

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Special Section: Open Forum
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 47 - 56
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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