How to treat a Piraha: medical ethics and cultural difference

心理学
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Daniel Sokol
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DOI:10.1136/bmj.h850
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Respecting a patient’s culture can conflict with an ethical or legal duty Deep in the Amazon rainforest the Piraha (pronounced “pee-da-HAN”) people speak a language unlike any other. The language has only three vowels and eight consonants and has no numbers, no counting, and no words for colours. A Piraha would refer to red, for example, by saying, “That is like blood.” The Piraha have minimal art and no musical instruments. They have no interest in the distant past or future. They ascribe scant value to privacy and show little fear of death. They have no doctors or hospitals. Yet, even the Piraha have principles of medical ethics. The linguistics expert Dan Everett, who spent many years among the Piraha, tells of a group of men killing a very sick baby by pouring copious amounts of alcohol in its mouth.1 He explained: “They felt certain that this baby was going to die. They felt it was suffering terribly […] So they euthanized the child.”1 All cultures have moral rules about the practice of medicine. Readers of …

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