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OPINION
‘The complex way to the truth’: responsible choices, goals and values. Commentary on article ‘Sovereign decision’ in the discourse of medical ethics (Mihailo Lukovich, Katarina Meistorovich, Dunja Knezhevich)
Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Denis Evgenievich Firsov
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In this article, ‘Sovereign Decision’ has been analyzed in the discourse of medical ethics (authors: Mihailo Lukovich, Katarina Meistorovich, Dunja Knezhevich). The interdisciplinary approach to the issue of axiological dissonance has been justified. It arises at the demarcation line of scientific private interests and society expectations and concerns implementation of research outcomes into the social practice. According to the authors, the ‘sovereign decision’, the key notion of the research, is a social phenomenon. In it, the legal sense of exclusive authorities becomes the imperative of an informed (ethical) choice in boundary situations of the subject’s legal elimination in relation to whom the ‘nominal’ or ‘exclusive’ medical decision is taken. By analyzing the issue of the ‘sovereign decision’ using the examples of vaccine prevention and euthanasia, the authors reveal the dialectic nature of the responsible choice. The issues that go beyond the subject of research seem perspective as well.
Keywords: medical ethics, axiological dissonance, responsible choice