Ethics & Evidence in Medical Debates: The Case of Recombinant Activated Factor VII

While ethics and evidence-based medicine are often viewed as separate domains of inquiry and practice, what we know influences what we can ethically justify doing, and what we see as our moral obligations shapes the way we interpret evidence. The boundaries between the moral and epistemic spheres be...

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Главные авторы: Ghinea, Narcyz (Автор) ; Lipworth, Wendy (Автор) ; Kerridge, Ian (Автор) ; Little, Miles (Автор) ; Day, Richard O. (Автор)
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Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2014
В: The Hastings Center report
Год: 2014, Том: 44, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 38-45
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