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PDFJME40: Good medical ethics
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Suffering, compassion and ‘doing good medical ethics’
Abstract
‘Doing good medical ethics’ involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt a virtue-based ethic and resolve to re-evaluate the goals of medicine, in particular the alleviation of suffering and the role of compassion in everyday ethics.
- Clinical Ethics
- Human Dignity
- Moral Psychology
- Philosophy of the Health Professions
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