dc.contributor.author | Dekker, Sidney WA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T11:19:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T11:19:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.date.modified | 2011-05-30T06:56:27Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-4197 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10943-007-9118-1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/38870 | |
dc.description.abstract | In dealing with inexplicable disaster, like the untimely death of a child in a hospital, we increasingly turn to the justice system for accountability and retribution. While seemingly sensible, criminalizing human error has a range of negative consequences. But it does offer "good" narratives of failure as the result of human fault-even at the cost of guilt. Such narratives allow us to pinpoint a cause: people made a rational choice to err and should be punished. This allows us to imagine ourselves in control over random, meaningless events. This paper traces Judeo-Christian roots of such regulative ideals in Western moral thinking, by examining the Genesis account of Eve and the Serpent, and St. Augustine's interpretation of it. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 571 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 579 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 4 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Religion and Health | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 46 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Medical ethics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 500106 | |
dc.title | Eve and the Serpent: A Rational Choice to Err | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.date.issued | 2007 | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Dekker, Sidney | |