{"id":5047,"date":"2020-03-01T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2020-03-01T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:03:15","slug":"flanigan-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/01\/flanigan-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Flanigan Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was such an interesting read, as I have never found the lack of self-medication to be any sort of issue. While it was fascinating hearing her arguments, especially the example with the difference between a diabetic person wanting diet\/exercise vs. insulin, there was still certain itching questions I couldn&#8217;t let go.<\/p>\n<p>For one, in her championing of autonomy, it still seems like Flanigan supports being informed, in that patients will still have information readily available to them. However, she says individuals can &#8220;opt-out&#8221; from relevant information &#8230; huh? The prescription system makes sense to me because doctors spend years and years of studying to understand how drugs work for the body, but with self-medication &#8230; an average joe can just choose to be ignorant? Weird.<\/p>\n<p>I am also skeptical that this self-medication will only stay within one&#8217;s self. What about accidents? I suppose accidents occur no matter what, but I just find the consequentalist framework more valuable for this issue than deontic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was such an interesting read, as I have never found the lack of self-medication to be any sort of issue. While it was fascinating hearing her arguments, especially the example with the difference between a diabetic person wanting diet\/exercise vs. insulin, there was still certain itching questions I couldn&#8217;t let go. For one, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}