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Love as a core value in veterinary and medical practice: Towards a humanimal clinical ethics?

  • This article represents the outcome of a dialogue between a vet and a healthcare ethicist on the theme of >love< in professional life. We focus on four types or varieties of love (eros, agape, philia and storge) in relation to the professional care of humans and animals. We discuss the relevance of Fromm’s core elements of love (care, responsibility, respect and knowledge) and consider the implications of these for human and animal health care practice. We present and respond to five arguments that might be waged against embracing love as a professional value in veterinary and medical practice. We argue that a moderated love can and should be reclaimed as a contemporary professional value. It is most helpfully contextualised within virtue ethics or care ethics. We suggest that love is a rich starting point from which to launch an exploration of an interprofessional humanimal clinical ethics.

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Author:Ann Gallagher, et al.
Parent Title (English):Clinical Ethics, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2018), pp. 1-8. [Online ISSN 1758-101X] [doi.org/10.1177/1477750917738110]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Gallagher_A_et_al_2018
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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