![]() ![]() ![]() To the extent that worldviews often encompass competing beliefs, the present research investigated the effect of the salience of an incompatibility between worldview elements. Terror management theory posits that cultural worldviews provide protection against death-related anxiety. The doctor is then caught between his general duty to patients at large and his particular duty to the patient in front of him, a tension tautened for a Hippocratic promoter of health and life by a patient in search of an exit. The system no doubt prefers death to be cheap and orderly but this thought may not move someone like Rilke wanting a death of his own. This builds a moral tension into a role played out where system meets patient, and one made instructively plain in the care of the dying. But his role is not that of an impartial allocator: his patients want his partisan support. ![]() effective and impartial allocation is a chief topic of medical ethics. His main task is to repair the living with resources whose. At the forefront of the array stands the doctor, part mechanic and part priest. They tidy our files cosily about us, inject us with extreme unction and slide us into the warm embrace of the undertaker. Rilke's remark conjures up an officious array of well-meaning persons bent on completing our orderly passage from cradle to grave. ![]()
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