Ruth Macklin, heimspekingur, flytur erindi á vegum Siðfræðistofnunar og Heimspekistofnunar Háskóla Íslands mánudaginn 9. nóvember kl. 12.05 í Aðalbyggingu HÍ, stofu 220. Ruth Macklin er prófessor í lífsiðfræði (bioethics) við Albert Einstein College of Medicine í New York. Hún hefur unnið mikið með fólki í þróunarlöndum og í erindinu mun hún fjalla um nokkrar siðferðilegar spurningar sem læknar standa frammi fyrir þegar eiga í samskiptum við sjúklinga af framandi þjóðerni. Hún flytur erindið á ensku og nefnir það:
Ethical Challenges for Physicians in Multicultural Settings
Three examples are illustrative of situations North American or European physicians may face. 1) A pediatrician in the United States cares for children in a local population of Mien immigrants from Laos. A Mien mother brings in her child who has been subjected to a harmful traditional treatment. The physician wonders whether he is required to report child abuse in accordance with the law. 2) An East African couple brings their 12-year old daughter to a Western physician, requesting that the physician perform ritual genital cutting. They say that if the physician refuses, they will take the child back to their African country where the physician knows the procedure will be carried out by a native person in an unhygienic manner, endangering the girl’s health and possibly even her life. 3) A Western physician working in a family planning clinic in an African country is told that she must obtain permission from the husbands of women before prescribing or providing contraceptives to them. The physician is aware that some women eagerly seek modern contraception but their husbands would refuse permission.
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