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Helping doctors become better doctors: Mary Lobjoit—an unsung heroine of medical ethics in the UK
  1. Margaret R Brazier1,
  2. Raanan Gillon2,
  3. John Harris3
  1. 1Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  2. 2Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
  3. 3Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr John Harris, Institute of Medicine Law and Bioethics, The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 0JH, UK; john.harris{at}manchester.ac.uk

Abstract

Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.

  • Medical ethics
  • suicide/assisted suicide
  • rights
  • right to refuse treatment
  • resource allocation
  • bioethics

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https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-100578

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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