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Needs and medicine

L D Willard

    The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
    |August 1, 1982
    PubMed
    Summary
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    Human needs, including health needs, are values, not objective facts. This perspective helps resolve issues in medical decision-making, defining health, and understanding patient rights.

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    Area of Science:

    • Philosophy of Medicine
    • Bioethics
    • Medical Sociology

    Background:

    • The nature of human needs, particularly in the context of health and medicine, is often debated.
    • Understanding needs as objective facts can lead to conceptual and practical difficulties in healthcare.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To argue that human needs, including health needs, should be understood as values rather than facts.
    • To explore the implications of this value-based perspective for several key areas in medicine and bioethics.

    Main Methods:

    • Philosophical argumentation
    • Conceptual analysis
    • Examination of existing debates in medical ethics and policy

    Main Results:

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  • Human needs are goal-oriented, driven by values, and function as basic motivational terms.
  • Disagreements about needs reflect differences in attitudes and emotional attachments to valued things.
  • Viewing health needs as values, not facts, addresses challenges in medical necessity, defining health/disease, evaluating medical advancements, and patient rights.

    • Conclusions:

    • A value-based framework for understanding human and health needs offers a more coherent approach.
    • This reframing is crucial for resolving complex ethical dilemmas in healthcare.
    • Recognizing health needs as values can better reconcile patient autonomy with medical recommendations.