Theological and Ethical Problems with Medicalizing Risk

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Christian Bioethics Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI:10.1093/cb/cbad011
Farr Curlin, Paul Scherz
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Abstract While the COVID-19 pandemic riveted public attention on questions regarding how to respond reasonably to risk of illness, everyday medical care involves more mundane forms of pharmaceutical risk management for conditions like high blood pressure, prediabetes, or high cholesterol. This essay, and the collection it introduces, explore medicalization of risk as a theological problem, drawing on resources such as the Sermon on the Mount that caution us about the potential dangers of risk management to Christian discipleship. Medicalization of risk threatens to become an idol that promises immanent security at the cost of one’s relationship with God and others. It misleads contemporary society as to the true human end and medicine’s own capabilities to provide temporal salvation. The essays in this special issue illustrate these problems with respect to pharmaceutical risk management.
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医学风险的神学和伦理问题
虽然COVID-19大流行引起了公众对如何合理应对疾病风险的关注,但日常医疗保健涉及更普通形式的药物风险管理,如高血压、前驱糖尿病或高胆固醇。这篇文章,以及它所介绍的文集,将风险的医学化作为一个神学问题来探讨,并借鉴了登山宝训等资源,提醒我们风险管理对基督徒门徒的潜在危险。将风险医疗化可能会成为一种偶像,以牺牲人与上帝和他人的关系为代价,承诺内在的安全。它误导了当代社会关于人类真正的目的和医学本身提供暂时拯救的能力。本特刊中的文章说明了这些问题与药品风险管理有关。
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