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The power of connected clinical teams: from loneliness to …

WebBackground We need to preserve the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in caring for the mental health of clinicians, of shared experiences, interdependence, team …

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Accountability as a virtue in medicine: from theory to practice

WebAccountability is a norm basic to several aspects of medical practice. We explore here the benefits of a more explicit focus on the virtue of accountability, which as …

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Principlism, medical individualism, and health promotion in …

WebThrough its adoption of the biomedical model of disease which promotes medical individualism and its reliance on the individual-based anthropology, mainstream …

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“Violence” in medicine: necessary and unnecessary, intentional and

WebWhat constitutes violence? The World Health Organization defines violence as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, …

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The art of equity: critical health humanities in practice

WebThe American Association of Medical Colleges has called for incorporation of the health humanities into medical education, and many medical schools now offer …

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Normality in medicine: a critical review Philosophy, Ethics, and

WebIn clinical practice normality is at the basis of all comparisons. [] From normality derives both health and disease, with implications from the patient self …

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Patients and agents – or why we need a different narrative: a

WebThe success of medicine in the treatment of patients brings with it new challenges. More people live on to suffer from functional, chronic or multifactorial …

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Barr Donald A: Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization

WebDonald A. Barr's Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America (second edition, 2007) offers a lucid …

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The role of philosophy and ethics at the edges of medicine

WebThe edge metaphor is ubiquitous in describing the present situation in the world, and nowhere is this as clearly visible as in medicine. “The edge of medicine” has …

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The “One Health” approach in the face of Covid-19: how radical …

WebThe 2020-2021 coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is just the latest epidemic event that requires us to rethink and change our understanding of health. Health should …

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Revisiting the need for virtue in medical practice: a reflection upon

WebEdmund Pellegrino considered medicine as a skill, art, and perhaps most importantly, a moral enterprise. In this essay, I attempt to exemplify how the legacy and …

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The ethics of everyday practice in primary medical care: …

WebTo examine this moral dilemma, we present a re-analysis of key findings of a study completed in 2002 that explored how Australian family physicians and their …

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The ethical foundations of patient-centered care in aesthetic …

WebWords matter. Aesthetic medicine (AM) is an umbrella term currently used for describing specialties with the aim of improving physical appearance through invasive …

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Utilitarianism and the ethical foundations of cost-effectiveness

WebEconomic efficiency is a leading criterion for resource allocation decisions for global (or public) health [1, 2].Yet assessments of efficiency in the form of cost …

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Admitting the heterogeneity of social inequalities: intersectionality

WebInequities shape the everyday experiences and life chances of individuals at the margins of societies and are often associated with lower health and particular …

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Virtue and medical ethics education Philosophy, Ethics, and

WebThe traditional structure of medical school curriculum in the United States consists of 2 years of pre-clinical study followed by 2 years of clinical rotations. In this …

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Should assisted dying be legalised

WebConversely, there are two notable oversights in this interpretation of a right to assisted dying as an extension of the principles of bodily autonomy: First, it would be …

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