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dc.contributor.authorDekker, Sidney WA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:19:06Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2011-05-30T06:56:27Z
dc.identifier.issn0022-4197
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10943-007-9118-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/38870
dc.description.abstractIn 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom571
dc.relation.ispartofpageto579
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Religion and Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume46
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMedical ethics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode500106
dc.titleEve and the Serpent: A Rational Choice to Err
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDekker, Sidney


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