Viewpoint: How to avoid a dichotomy between autonomy and beneficence: From liberalism to communitarianism and beyond

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 269, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-379

  Sutrop, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Beneficence; Electronic health record databases; Ethical framework; Genomic databases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS;

BENEFICENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 79952666069     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02349_2.x     Document Type: Article

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