Paradoxical traps in therapeutics: some dilemmas in medical ethics.
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Paradoxical traps in therapeutics: some dilemmas in medical ethics.
The doctor-patient relationship is examined an emphasis on the comparison between professional and moral principles. Many therapeutic measures have opposite-directed alternative steps with an equal degree of justification, so that no logical preference is attainable and conflicts ensue. Thus patients come for relief and are ordered to endure further pain and discomfort; or weaker individuals ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.5.1.22