Patient decision-making: medical ethics and mediation.
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Patient decision-making: medical ethics and mediation
A review of medical ethics literature relating to the importance of the participation ofpatients in decisionmaking introduces the role of rights-based mediation as a voluntary process now being developed innovatively in America. This is discussed in relation to the theory of communicative ethics and moral personhood. References are then made to the work of medical ethics committees and the role...
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A review of medical ethics literature relating to the importance of the participation of patients in decision-making introduces the role of rights-based mediation as a voluntary process now being developed innovatively in America. This is discussed in relation to the theory of communicative ethics and moral personhood. References are then made to the work of medical ethics committees and the ro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.22.3.164