Dignity and respect for dignity - Two key health professional values: Implications for nursing practice

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 587-599

  Gallagher, Ann ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dignity; Ethic of aspiration; Human nature; Respect for dignity; Self regarding and other regarding values; Subjective and objective views

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMANISM; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ETHICAL RELATIVISM; ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANISM; HUMANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 16544374870     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733004ne744oa     Document Type: Conference Paper

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