Do doctors owe a special duty of beneficence to their patients?
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چکیده
The continuing debate in these pages about whether or not doctors are among those groups in society who have special, supererogatory moral obligations to their clientele seems important enough to pursue, even at the acknowledged risk of boring some readers. In this issue Professor Downie furthers the discussion by arguing against three claims defended in a previous editorial (1). Those claims were:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of medical ethics
دوره 12 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986