The Doctor Within

Examining consent within the patient-doctor relationship.

The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes neither duress nor ignorance. More seriously, I argue here that consent is redundant except in situations where paternalism prevails. Paradoxically, these are the very situations where it may be diffic...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Lying, secrecy and power within the doctor-patient relationship.

Based on ethnographic research from two distinct French settings, the author examines the lying of doctors, and the lying of patients. The first situation is that of medical practitioners, specialists in the treatment of alcoholism, who affirm to ex-drinkers that it is impossible to drink normally again after treatment, without falling back into dependency, whilst knowing of the existence of co...

The shadow within the shadow: how was Canada's sixth prime minister, Charles Tupper, as a doctor?

By land or by sea In the spring of 1866 the “cholera” steamship, SS England, left Queenstown on the southern tip of Ireland, bound for New York with a full complement of immigrants, mostly German and Irish. The SS England was new and fast and her specifications complied with the ventilation and space-per-passenger requirements dictated by the Shipping Act. When she departed Ireland her passenge...

The doctor.