Why comply with a code of ethics?

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 195-202

  Spielthenner, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Codes of ethics; Compliance with a code; Following a code; Practical reasoning; Professional codes

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS;

CODES OF ETHICS; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84926358803     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-014-9594-5     Document Type: Article

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