The Ethics of Truth-Telling in Health-Care Settings

Can a lie be justified if it saves a human life or a community, or if another great evil is avoided? The article proposes that health professionals need not always tell the truth, depending on situation; but, this does not refute the significance of telling the truth. It also elucidates the value of...

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Autor principal: Zolkefli, Yusrita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018
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Special Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6422557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899195
http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2018.25.3.14
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description Can a lie be justified if it saves a human life or a community, or if another great evil is avoided? The article proposes that health professionals need not always tell the truth, depending on situation; but, this does not refute the significance of telling the truth. It also elucidates the value of telling the truth, and the challenges for telling the whole truth. Two prominent theories of ethics, Deontological and Consequentialism are deliberated, together with the integration of examples to illustrate main areas of interest.
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spelling pubmed-64225572019-03-21 The Ethics of Truth-Telling in Health-Care Settings Zolkefli, Yusrita Malays J Med Sci Special Communications Can a lie be justified if it saves a human life or a community, or if another great evil is avoided? The article proposes that health professionals need not always tell the truth, depending on situation; but, this does not refute the significance of telling the truth. It also elucidates the value of telling the truth, and the challenges for telling the whole truth. Two prominent theories of ethics, Deontological and Consequentialism are deliberated, together with the integration of examples to illustrate main areas of interest. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018-05 2018-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6422557/ /pubmed/30899195 http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2018.25.3.14 Text en © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2018 This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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