AUTONOMY AND CULTURE: THE CASE OF LATIN AMERICA

Value Inquiry Book Series

Volumn 118, Issue , 2002, Pages 9-26

  Salles, Arleen L F ^a  

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DOI: 10.1163/9789004494084_005     Document Type: Chapter

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53. Edmund Pellegrino, "I s Truth Te lling to the Pat ient a Cultural Artifact?", JAMA. 268: 13 (October 1992) .
54. Diego Gracia, "The Historical Setting of Latin American Bioethics," The Journal ofMedicine and Philosophy, 21 (1996).
55. See Florencia Luna, "Paternalism and the Argument from Illiteracy," Bioethics. 9:3-4 (1995), p. 607.
56. Edmund Pellegrino, "Prologue: Intersections of Western Biomedical Ethics and World Culture," Transcultural Dimensions in Medical Ethics. eds. Edmund Pellegrin o, Patrici a Mazarella, Pietro Corsi (Frederick, Md.: Unive rsity Publi shin g Group, 1992).
57. See "Study Shows Doctors Are Lax in Giving Information to Patients," New fork Times. (22 December 1999). Also Clarence Braddock lll. et al.. " Informed Decision-Making in Outpatient Practice: Time to Get Back to Basics," Journal ofthe American Medical Association, 282:24 (1999), pp. 2313-2320.
58. For help ful and detailed comments on earlier versions of this chapter I am very grateful to Maria Victoria Costa, Constance Perry. Elizabeth Millan-Zeibert, Christopher Herre ra. and Maria Julia Bertomeu.