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A long shadow: Nazi doctors, moral vulnerability and contemporary medical culture
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- Published on: 18 May 2012
- Published on: 18 May 2012When medicine descends into darkness from the long shadow of the pastShow More
Colaianni cautions that "the long shadow of Nazi medicine" can engulf the current practice of medicine because of thriving "moral vulnerabilities in contemporary medical culture" (1). We add to the list of moral vulnerabilities: the integration of "principlism" as the dominant, if not the exclusive, ethical model of decision making in clinical medicine and healthcare policy. Although Beauchamp and Childress (the main p...
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