Saving and ignoring lives: Physicians obligations to address root social influences on health moral justifications and educational implications

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 497-509

  Stone, John R ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORALITY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STANDARD;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 77957727409     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180110000393     Document Type: Article

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