What is empirical ethics?;Was ist empirische Ethik?

Ethik in der Medizin

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 187-199

  Musschenga, Bert A W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Generalist, coherentist, contextualist) empirical ethics; Competence; Context sensitivity; Medical anthropology; Medical ethics; Medical sociology; Patient autonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77549087100     PISSN: 09357335     EISSN: 14371618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00481-009-0025-8     Document Type: Article

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