Virtuous acts as practical medical ethics: An empirical study

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 948-953

  Little, Miles ^a   Gordon, Jill ^a   Markham, Pippa ^a   Rychetnik, Lucie ^a   Kerridge, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

empirical ethics; medical practice; qualitative research; virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHARACTER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

DECISION MAKING; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VIRTUES;

EID: 80053211238     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01730.x     Document Type: Article

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