Bioethics and the (im)materially entangled individual: lessons from end-of-life care in Thailand

Scott Stonington, MD, PhD—
In Northern Thailand, many critically ill patients consider themselves to be entangled or even hybridized with other beings through the karmic consequences of past actions. Using this case as a starting point, this talk examines the practice of bioethics in situations where individuals are inextricably entangled with one another, a common situation regardless of geography or cultural context. How can one practice normally individual rights-oriented ethics when one is always already partly the other?

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