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Review
. 1991 Feb;16(1):53-70.
doi: 10.1093/jmp/16.1.53.

The irreducibly clinical character of bioethics

S Wear  1
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Review

The irreducibly clinical character of bioethics

S Wear. J Med Philos. 1991 Feb.

Abstract

Current bioethics scholarship and pedagogy suffers from an insufficient correlation with the realities and variables of clinical medicine, particularly in its dominant paradigm of patient autonomy. Reference to various basic clinical factors will be made here toward proposing certain conceptual, tactical and pedagogical modifications to this paradigm.

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