Obligation of non-maleficence: moral dilemma in physician-patient relationship
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Obligation of non-maleficence: moral dilemma in physician-patient relationship
This paper highlights the principle of non-maleficence from sections of the Hippocratic oath and those entailed in various declarations of medical ethics and conduct. The moral dilemmas associated with adherence or efforts at adherence to the principle were indicated with the use of prepared cases. The centrality of the paper is the moral conflict encountered by physicians in their efforts at m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1596-6941
DOI: 10.4314/jmbr.v4i1.10664