TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Medicine against Suicide: Sustaining Solidarity with Those Diminished by Illness and Debility
JO  - Christian bioethics
A1  - Curlin, F.A.
A1  - Tollefsen, C.
SP  - 250
EP  - 263
VL  - 27
IS  - 3
N2  - The medical profession's increasing acceptance of "physician aid-in-dying"indicates the ascendancy of what we call the provider-of-services model for medicine, in which medical "providers"offer services to help patients maximize their "well-being"according to the wishes of the patient. This model contrasts with and contradicts what we call the Way of Medicine, in which medicine is a moral practice oriented to the patient's health. A steadfast refusal intentionally to harm or kill is a touchstone of the Way of Medicine, one unambiguously affirmed by Christians through the centuries. Moreover, physician aid-in-dying contradicts one of the distinctive contributions that the Christian era brought to medicine, namely, a taken-for-granted solidarity between medical practitioners and those suffering illness and disability. Insofar as medical practitioners cooperate in aid-in-dying, they contradict this solidarity and undermine the trust that patients need to allow themselves to be cared for by physicians when they are sick and debilitated. © 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1380-3603
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab010
ID  - ref1
ER  -