This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care--as opposed to life-or-death--medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look at the moral frameworks, habits of thought, and customs of practice that underlie choices. Harmon Smith and Larry Churchill argue that primary care, far from being merely a setting for the ...
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This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care--as opposed to life-or-death--medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look at the moral frameworks, habits of thought, and customs of practice that underlie choices. Harmon Smith and Larry Churchill argue that primary care, far from being merely a setting for the rendering of care, provides a new understanding of both physician and patient, and thereby offers a fresh basis for medical ethics.
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Good. 1986. Hardcover. "Includes index. Bibliography: p. [109]-113. Commissioning organisation: Harmon L. Smith and Larry R. Churchill. viii, 117 p. 22 cm. Associated Names: Churchill, Larry R., . Associated Dates: 1945-. Paperback. A good clean copy." Keywords: "Science & Nature-Medicine-Medical Ethics & Legal Issues, Scientific, Technical & Medical-Medicine & Nursing-Medical Ethics & Lega". Not a first edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine in NF jacket. Grey cloth with gilt titles to spoine, in grey uncoated card jacket, 8vo. viii+117pp. Index, notes. Fine/NF. Jacket has mild rubbing lower front hnge, touches of surface loss at tips and extreme spine ends. Otherwise book and jacket are as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. In Brodart.
