Autonomy and Clinical Medicine: Renewing the Health Professional Relation with the Patient
(Book #2 in the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine Series)
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This book arises from a two-fold conviction. The first is that autonomy, despite recent critiques about its importance in bioethics and philosophy of medicine, and the traditional resistance of medicine to its "intrusion" into the doctor-patient relation, is a fundamental building block of an individual's identity and mechanisms for dealing with illness, disease, and incapacity. As such it is an essential component in the health care professional's...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0792362071
ISBN13:9780792362074
Release Date:February 2000
Publisher:Springer
Length:202 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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