Telling the bones

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Telling the truth.

Are doctors and nurses bound by just the same constraints as everyone else in regard to honesty? What, anyway, does honesty require? Telling no lies? Avoiding intentional deception by whatever means? From a utilitarian standpoint lying would seem to be on the same footing as other forms of intentional deception: yielding the same consequences. But utilitarianism fails to explain the wrongness o...

Telling the Teenagers

guidance clinic, a reception centre, the management committee of a mental hospital, and the Marriage Guidance Council?-to give answers to the questions of puzzled and confused young people of all classes. In these experiences, the foreword says that she found herself tracing distress and disaster to their source in unhappy or broken homes. And the effect of the book would be to help young peopl...

Telling Patients the Truth

This article discusses the ethical necessity of health care workers telling their patients the truth about both their diagnosis and prognosis. This necessity is based upon respect for persons, utility, and kindness. Within this ethical obligation to tell the truth, however, there are several different ways in which the truth can be told. In particular, this paper stresses that telling patients ...

Toriyeh: the Way of Escaping from Telling Lies to Patients

Toriyeh means concealing real intention of speech using its parallel and common words so that the listener constructs from speaker's speech a meaning what he/she meant. The purpose of this research is studying jurisprudential dimensions of toriyeh in order to clarify its distinction from lying and related jurisprudential commandments by explanation of the most important discussions about toriye...