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The challenge of discrepancies in values among physicians, patients, and family members

✍ Scribed by David W. Kissane

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
56 KB
Volume
100
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

Dignity, autonomy, integrity, and vulnerability constitute an excellent set of ethical principles fundamental to a conception of the human good upon which to consider questions of care for the terminally ill.

See article by Oh et al, this issue.

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