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Singling out the double effect – some further comment

We comment on a paper published in the same issue of the London Journal of Primary Care. We applaud Bow’s engagement with the ethical issues in a previous LJPC paper but argue that further work is needed to establish the everyday moral concerns of health care workers in primary care. We also suggest...

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Autores principales: Papanikitas, Andrew, Spicer, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26550038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2015.1082346
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spelling pubmed-46068202015-11-05 Singling out the double effect – some further comment Papanikitas, Andrew Spicer, John London J Prim Care (Abingdon) Articles We comment on a paper published in the same issue of the London Journal of Primary Care. We applaud Bow’s engagement with the ethical issues in a previous LJPC paper but argue that further work is needed to establish the everyday moral concerns of health care workers in primary care. We also suggest that the ethical distinction between advice and medication and devices may be artificial if both have an effect on a patient. Taylor & Francis 2015-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4606820/ /pubmed/26550038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2015.1082346 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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