The Risk of Paternalism in the Use of Narrative Ethics: The Case of Voluntary Sterilization in Childless Women Under 30
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https://doi.org/10.7202/1117876arKeywords:
bioethics, narrative ethics, epistemic injustice, medical paternalism, sterilizationLanguage(s):
FrenchAbstract
This text is a commentary on Masella and Marceau’s article on voluntary sterilization in childless women under 30. I argue that their publication is essential for a rigorous analysis of the ethical dilemma between women’s autonomy and medical paternalism. However, I also suggest that their proposal of a narrative ethics approach as a solution to the ethical dilemma opens the way to a more insidious, but no less problematic, paternalism. That is, a narrative ethics can, paradoxically, reactivate paternalistic dynamics and amplify epistemic and social injustices.
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