TY - JOUR
T1 - Artificial Personhood
T2 - Nursing Ethics in a Medical World
AU - Liaschenko, Joan
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1995/9
Y1 - 1995/9
N2 - Artificial persons are those who speak and act for others. Nurses speak and act for patients as well as for physicians and institutions, or, more aptly, institutionalized medicine. Yet, acting for institutionalized medicine can be harmful to nurses, due to the psychological experience of moral distress and the loss of integrity of their practice. This paper illustrates the harm to nurses as expressed in narratives of their practice, and suggests some initial steps we might take in resisting the artificial personhood imposed by institutionalized medicine.
AB - Artificial persons are those who speak and act for others. Nurses speak and act for patients as well as for physicians and institutions, or, more aptly, institutionalized medicine. Yet, acting for institutionalized medicine can be harmful to nurses, due to the psychological experience of moral distress and the loss of integrity of their practice. This paper illustrates the harm to nurses as expressed in narratives of their practice, and suggests some initial steps we might take in resisting the artificial personhood imposed by institutionalized medicine.
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U2 - 10.1177/096973309500200302
DO - 10.1177/096973309500200302
M3 - Article
C2 - 7583425
AN - SCOPUS:0029372497
SN - 0969-7330
VL - 2
SP - 185
EP - 196
JO - Nursing Ethics
JF - Nursing Ethics
IS - 3
ER -