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Ethical issues in diagnosis

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The ways in which ethical issues arise in making clinical judgments are briefly discussed. By showing the topography of the role of value judgments in medical diagnostics it is suggested why clinical medicine remains inextricably a value-infected science.

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  1. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Center for Bioethics, Georgetown University, 20057, Washington, D.C.

    H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

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This paper draws upon one presented in a different form in German at III. Internationales Münsteraner Gespräch: Fortschritte in der Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie, April 1, 1979, University of Münster. The German version will appear in the proceedings of this conference.

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Engelhardt, H.T. Ethical issues in diagnosis. Metamedicine 1, 39–50 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00883518

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