Ethical issues in diagnosis

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 1 (1):39-50 (1980)
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Abstract

The ways in which ethical issues arise in making clinical judgments are briefly discussed. By showing the topography of the role of value judgments in medical diagnostics it is suggested why clinical medicine remains inextricably a value-infected science.

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