Same same but different: Why we should care about the distinction between professionalism and ethics

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Salloch, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethics; Ethos; Physician Assisted Suicide; Professional Law; Professionalism; Sociology of the Professions

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED SUICIDE; DIFFERENTIATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; OCCUPATION; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONALISM; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MORALS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONALISM; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 84978998641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12910-016-0128-y     Document Type: Article

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