The evolution of health care in the United States have evolved since the 1800 's until the present, going through an atmosphere of home care, remedies and itinerant physicians to complex system, technological, scientific, and lucrative called industrial medical complex. Coupled with this development the relationships between physicians, health personnel and patients suffered a marked change in the last years and is looked at 40 from different edges or points of view, one of them is the dilemma paternalism versus autonomy in health care.
It is well known by all the notion that we live in a society where hundreds of patrialcal values have supremacy on others that they are often imposed in order to maintain a social order. The paternalism has exercised significant influence in a significant number of legislatures and countries around the world of there the importance of discussing and analysing the impact it has on the health care structures in the population.
When we speak of paternalism we cannot fail to mention the concept of autonomy because they are inextricably linked. Paternalism is the interference of the autonomy of the individual in order to protect against possible damage. The word is born of the term latin " pater" which means father or benefactor . Generally this concept is linked to the idea that the father or …show more content…
In accordance with the theory the ethics of Kant the violation of the autonomy of the patient will always be morally unacceptable. One of the more notorious that daily behaviors occur in the circles of health is the omission of information. It is common to hear that the treating physician has not imformado for families or has omitted information given to the patient to take right decisions. This action paternalistic excluded from the decision-making process to the patients and family beneficiaries, which rarely
It is well known by all the notion that we live in a society where hundreds of patrialcal values have supremacy on others that they are often imposed in order to maintain a social order. The paternalism has exercised significant influence in a significant number of legislatures and countries around the world of there the importance of discussing and analysing the impact it has on the health care structures in the population.
When we speak of paternalism we cannot fail to mention the concept of autonomy because they are inextricably linked. Paternalism is the interference of the autonomy of the individual in order to protect against possible damage. The word is born of the term latin " pater" which means father or benefactor . Generally this concept is linked to the idea that the father or …show more content…
In accordance with the theory the ethics of Kant the violation of the autonomy of the patient will always be morally unacceptable. One of the more notorious that daily behaviors occur in the circles of health is the omission of information. It is common to hear that the treating physician has not imformado for families or has omitted information given to the patient to take right decisions. This action paternalistic excluded from the decision-making process to the patients and family beneficiaries, which rarely