The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics
In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law-the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for example—this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes medical ethics is more demanding than law; at...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publ.
2015
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-98 |
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| Summary: | In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law-the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for example—this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes medical ethics is more demanding than law; at other times, perhaps counterintuitively, the law appears to ask more of doctors than does good medical ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102311 |