title: The noncompliant patient: a Kantian and Levinasian response.
abstract: When a patient fails to follow the advice or prescription of a physician, she is termed to be "noncompliant" by the medical community. The medical community's response to and understanding of patient noncompliance fails to acknowledge noncompliance as either a relational failure between physician and patient or as a patient choice. I offer an analysis of Immanuel Kant and Emmanuel Levinas that refocuses the issue of noncompliance by examining the physician role, the doctor-patient relationship, and the nature of responsibility.
authors.affiliation: Alden March Bioethics Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Albany Medical College, 16 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, USA. BurcheP@mail.amc.edu
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burcher
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D035502:Trust