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Human Selves, Chronic Illness, and the Ethics of Medicine
Author(s) -
Donnelley Strachan
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562399
Subject(s) - medical ethics , psychology , medicine , psychiatry
Bioethical principles and theories rest on fundamental philosophic conceptions of the human self that usually go unexamined. Reconsideration of our philosophic understanding of a human self requires that health practitioners broaden their ethical concern for patients decidedly beyond respect for decision‐making autonomy and gaining informed consent for medical procedures.

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