Ethical theory, ethnography, and differences between doctors and nurses in approaches to patient care

OBJECTIVES: To study empirically whether ethical theory (from the mainstream principles-based, virtue-based, and feminist schools) usefully describes the approaches doctors and nurses take in everyday patient care. DESIGN: Ethnographic methods: participant observation and interviews, the transcripts...

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Main Author: Robertson, D. W. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 1996
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1996, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 292-299
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