Empirical ethics as dialogical practice

Bioethics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 236-248

  Widdershoven, Guy ^a   Abma, Tineke ^a   Molewijk, Bert ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coercion; Empirical ethics; Hermeneutic ethics; Psychiatry; Responsive evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHIATRY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COERCION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; NARRATION; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 63449103073     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01712.x     Document Type: Article

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