Knowledge of people’s personal lives, whether granted willingly or not, changes the way those individuals are viewed and interacted with. When people willingly give their history to another person they are aware of how the person may or may not react to the new information. Doctors follow this rule when consulting families about genetic matters. “The Danish Ethics Council states that communicating genetic information within a family is solely a family matter, and the initiative must come from the proband. This view is based primarily on a consequentialist principle that focuses on possible harm to the relatives. ‘This [an unsolicited approach] can create undue anxiety on the part of relatives concerned and, at worst, encroach radically on their
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With knowledge comes power, and those who believe they have more knowledge than others will place themselves above those who are less educated. A person with more education then believes they have the upper hand over the less educated person. This leads people to do things they believe they have the power to do because they have a greater education. In The Circle, Mae sees Dr. Villalobos for the first time to get a general check up. Now technology has advanced since the last time of her check up however the doctor did not get Mae’s consent before initiating an examination. She handed Mae a green liquid, a smoothie, and told her to drink it. Within the drink was a sensor however, she did not inform Mae of this prior to Mae ingesting it. Dr. Villalobos’s excuse was “if I put it in your hand, you’d hem and haw. But the sensor is so small, and its organic of course, so you drink it, you don’t notice, and it’s over” (Eggers 155). This is a direct violation of Mae’s rights, and the Doctor only violated them because she believed with her increased knowledge that it was the better thing to do. Jon Torgny R. Wilcke quoted the Danish Ethics Council stating that “no unsolicited approach may be made by the health authorities in the case of an examination that may show any hereditary disease in the family” (Wilcke). This means that Dr. Villalobos not only transgressed the code of Ethics doctors are supposed to abide by, but she broke the trust between doctor and patient. If anyone outside this dystopian universe had that happen to them, there would be a law uit involved. Mae believed this was all for the greater good, as told by her doctor “The ideas is with complete information, we can give better care. Incomplete information creates gaps in our knowledge, and medically speaking, gaps in our knowledge creates mistakes and omissions” (Eggers 156). This end
With knowledge comes power, and those who believe they have more knowledge than others will place themselves above those who are less educated. A person with more education then believes they have the upper hand over the less educated person. This leads people to do things they believe they have the power to do because they have a greater education. In The Circle, Mae sees Dr. Villalobos for the first time to get a general check up. Now technology has advanced since the last time of her check up however the doctor did not get Mae’s consent before initiating an examination. She handed Mae a green liquid, a smoothie, and told her to drink it. Within the drink was a sensor however, she did not inform Mae of this prior to Mae ingesting it. Dr. Villalobos’s excuse was “if I put it in your hand, you’d hem and haw. But the sensor is so small, and its organic of course, so you drink it, you don’t notice, and it’s over” (Eggers 155). This is a direct violation of Mae’s rights, and the Doctor only violated them because she believed with her increased knowledge that it was the better thing to do. Jon Torgny R. Wilcke quoted the Danish Ethics Council stating that “no unsolicited approach may be made by the health authorities in the case of an examination that may show any hereditary disease in the family” (Wilcke). This means that Dr. Villalobos not only transgressed the code of Ethics doctors are supposed to abide by, but she broke the trust between doctor and patient. If anyone outside this dystopian universe had that happen to them, there would be a law uit involved. Mae believed this was all for the greater good, as told by her doctor “The ideas is with complete information, we can give better care. Incomplete information creates gaps in our knowledge, and medically speaking, gaps in our knowledge creates mistakes and omissions” (Eggers 156). This end