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Healthy Respect: Ethics in Health Care

R. S. Downie, K. C. Calman, Ruth A. K. Schröck, and Malcolm Macnaughton

Print publication date: 1994

Print ISBN-13: 9780192624086

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192624086.001.0001

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Knowledge, Skills, and Values

Knowledge, Skills, and Values

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(p.8) Chapter 1 KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND VALUES
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Healthy Respect
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R. S. Downie

K. C. Calman

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192624086.003.0002

Clinical facts are necessary but not sufficient for clinical decision making; judgements of an ethical nature are also necessary. This points to the assumptions of the book: morality (ethics) is inescapable; morality is all-pervasive; morality is indivisible (the traditional distinction between ‘professional ethics’ and ‘private morality’ is rejected); moral decisions must arise from medical and economic realities; morality is to a great extent learnable and teachable.

Keywords:   decision making, clinical facts, professional ethics, private morality

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