A French Perspective on Hospital Ethics Committees
In this article we highlight the main points of the development of bioethics and ethics committees in France. We argue that the French cultural context of medicine and its current political transformations favor new models of hospital ethics committee and we provide an example of such a model develo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 300-307 |
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| Summary: | In this article we highlight the main points of the development of bioethics and ethics committees in France. We argue that the French cultural context of medicine and its current political transformations favor new models of hospital ethics committee and we provide an example of such a model developed at Paris's Institut Curie, the oldest French cancer treatment and research centre. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180108080365 |