Human all too human reasoning: Comparing clinical and phenomenological intuition

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom)

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-189

  Braude, Hillel D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

clinical intuition; clinical reasoning; ethics; medicine; phenomenology; phronesis; praxis; techn

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTUITION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84875179941     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: 17445019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhs057     Document Type: Review

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