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Teaching and learning ethics
The morality of care: case study and review
Abstract
This case concerns aspects of the treatment of a post-surgical patient in a major public hospital in New Zealand during the author's experiences as a fourth year medical student. This case is used to consider the interlinked ethical issues of sympathy, moral virtue, dignity and how the medical environment can realign these values.
- Sympathy
- antipathy
- virtue
- dignity
- vulnerability
- applied and professional ethics
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