In A Very Easy Death Simone de Beauvoir documents the illness, hospitalization, and death of her mother Françoise. Critics in the fields of bioethics and the medical humanities have concentrated on the text's paternalistic doctor-patient encounter, which culminates in the withholding of the cancer diagnosis from Beauvoir's mother and entails an unnecessary medical intervention to which the patient never consents. Reviewing the text's reception, this article argues that a focus on the ways in which it depicts breaches of several tenets of medical ethics have decontextualized A Very Easy Death and occluded the key role Beauvoir plays in the doctor-patient relationship. By situating the text within Beauvoir's œuvre and debates in French philosophy of medicine at the time of publication, this article proposes that Beauvoir's part in the withholding of the cancer diagnosis emerges less as a submission to medical paternalism than as a form of maternal caregiving.

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超越医学家长式作风：解除西蒙娜·德·波伏娃 (Simone de Beauvoir) 的《轻松之死》中的医患关系

在 A Very Easy Death 中，Simone de Beauvoir 记录了她母亲 Françoise 的疾病、住院和死亡。生物伦理学和医学人文领域的批评者集中在文本的家长式医患遭遇上，最终导致波伏娃的母亲拒绝接受癌症诊断，并导致患者从未同意的不必要的医疗干预。回顾文本的接受情况，本文认为，关注文本描述违反几项医学伦理原则的方式已经脱离了《极易死亡》的背景，并掩盖了波伏瓦在医患关系中扮演的关键角色。通过将文本置于波伏瓦出版时法国医学哲学的全部著作和辩论中，本文提出波伏瓦的“