Palliative Care: Our Moral Obligation

Managed care: our ministry obligation to shape change.

Inability and Obligation in Moral Judgment

It is often thought that judgments about what we ought to do are limited by judgments about what we can do, or that "ought implies can." We conducted eight experiments to test the link between a range of moral requirements and abilities in ordinary moral evaluations. Moral obligations were repeatedly attributed in tandem with inability, regardless of the type (Experiments 1-3), temporal duratio...

Arrow’s Social Ordering as Moral Obligation

This paper aimed to prove that Arrow's Theorem is meant not only to formulate a social decision process but also to clarify moral rules or a " modus vivendi " in an objective, scientific way. In order to achieve this aim, the paper traced the theoretical development of Arrow's theory through a look at the argument between Arrow and (among others) Bergson and Little.

A framework for understanding moral distress among palliative care clinicians.

BACKGROUND Palliative care clinicians confront suffering as they care for people living with life-limiting conditions. When the degree of suffering becomes unjustified, moral distress can ensue. Promising work from neuroscience and social psychology has yet to be applied to clinical practice. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to expand a social psychology model focusing on empathy and compassion in...

Healing and palliative care: charting our way forward.

Healing has been defined as a relational process involving movement towards an experience of integrity and wholeness, whichmay be facilitated by a caregiver’s interventions but is dependent on an innate potential within the patient. It is not dependant on the presence of, or the capacity for, physical well being. Indeed, it is possible to die healed. In contrast to the familiar Hippocratic appr...