Doctors share responsibility for damaging discourse

Responsibility for Technological Development by Discourse

This article takes a look at the relationship between technology and responsibility. The sometimes catastrophic results of technology have led to demands for the assumption of responsibility for technological development. Assuming responsibility can be realized individually, through technology assessment or through societal measures, I introduce a concept of responsibility based on discourse et...

Risk and Responsibility In the GMO Discourse

Doctors as judges: the verdict on responsibility for health.

Smokers, drinkers, animal fat eaters, the inactive and the obese, they are all blamed for their potential ill health by doctors, society and their families, in western societies victim blaming is a widespread phenomenon. Doctors are encouraged or even put under pressure to judge behaviour as a tool to allocate and ration medical procedures, by governments or insurance companies that want to kee...

Responsibility and expectations in antiretroviral therapy--patients' versus doctors' perspective.

AIM This paper aims to uncover what patients really expect form ART, and also what infectious diseases doctors expect from a patient's ART regime, thus exploring an important side of adherence to ART. MATERIAL AND METHODS From July to November 2014 we have conducted a qualitative study regarding both patients' and doctors' expectations form the ART. We interviewed 30 patients and 4 doctors. W...

Public (non-) apologies: The discourse of minimizing responsibility

The frequent realizations of apologies in the global arena since the beginning of the 1990s, has turned the speech act into a common device for image restoration. In spite of the advantages that public figures can benefit in contemporary politics of trust from apologizing, the speech act still poses a threat to the public figure’s image. Apologies can undermine the public figure’s desired face,...