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’Treating Threats - the Ethical Dilemmas of Treating Threatening Patients

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Author

  • Sara Louise Muhr
  • Jeanette Lemmergaard

Summary, in English

This paper considers the impact of threats on professional service workers, especially as these emerge in healthcare services. Based on interviews with healthcare professionals and prison guards, this paper discusses the ethical dilemmas inherent in viewing the doctor-patient relationship from a solely rule-based ethical approach when threatening behaviour is involved. It is argued that under threatening circumstances, a service worker will not be able to exclude personal moral beliefs from the decision-making process. Consequently, the tradition of relying on rule-based ethics is insufficient on its own and must be supplemented with a repersonalised ethics of 'the Other'.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

35-45

Publication/Series

Service Industries Journal

Volume

29

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • business ethics
  • Levinas
  • Doctors

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0264-2069