Descriptions of euthanasia as social representations: comparing the views of Finnish physicians and religious professionals
| Autor: | Terhi Utriainen, Luc Deliens, Leila Jylhänkangas, Tinne Smets, Joachim Cohen |
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| Přispěvatelé: | End-of-life Care Research Group, Public and occupational health, EMGO - Quality of care |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
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Health (social science) Palliative care physicians Social Sciences 050109 social psychology PALLIATIVE CARE 0302 clinical medicine NEGOTIATION 030212 general & internal medicine Assisted suicide Qualitative Research Finland media_common ASSISTED SUICIDE Health Policy 05 social sciences Religion and Medicine DEATH Slippery slope FINLAND 16. Peace & justice 3. Good health OF-LIFE DECISIONS Negotiation Moral code Personal choice END Female Psychology Social psychology COUNTRIES Attitude to Death Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject DOCTORS religious professionals 03 medical and health sciences Physicians death Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ATTITUDES death and dying Physician's Role Health professionals dying Euthanasia Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health euthanasia social representations Clergy Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jylhankangas, L, Smets, T, Cohen, J, Utriainen, T & Deliens, L 2014, ' Descriptions of euthanasia as social representations: comparing the views of Finnish physicians and religious professionals ', Sociology of health & illness, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 354-368 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12057 SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS Sociology of health & illness, 36(3), 354-368. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 0141-9889 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12057 |
| Popis: | In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying. Religious professionals, such as pastors, are also confronted with the issues surrounding death and dying in their work. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the ways in which death-related topics, such as euthanasia, are constructed in a given culture are affected by the views of these professionals. This qualitative study addresses the ways in which Finnish physicians and religious professionals perceive and describe euthanasia and conceptualises these descriptions and views as social representations. Almost all the physicians interviewed saw that euthanasia does not fit the role of a physician and anchored it to different kinds of risks such as the slippery slope. Most of the religious and world-view professionals also rejected euthanasia. In this group, euthanasia was rejected on the basis of a religious moral code that forbids killing. Only one of the religious professionals - the freethinker with an atheist world-view - accepted euthanasia and described it as a personal choice, as did the one physician interviewed who accepted it. The article shows how the social representations of euthanasia are used to protect professional identities and to justify their expert knowledge of death and dying. |
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