Human Selves, Chronic Illness, and the Ethics of Medicine

Hastings Center Report 18 (2):5-8 (1988)
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Abstract

Bioethical principles and theories rest on fundamental philosophic conceptions of the human self that usually go unexamined. Reconsideration of our philosophic understanding of a human self requires that health practitioners broaden their ethical concern for patients decidedly beyond respect for decision‐making autonomy and gaining informed consent for medical procedures.

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