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Medical ethics in the primary care setting.

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Smith, HL
Published in: Social science & medicine (1982)
January 1987

Much popular and professional understanding of 'medical ethics' is nowadays located in quandary ethics, exotic life-and-death decision-making, and tertiary care settings. Medical ethics in the primary care setting is concerned with very different matters. Among these are issues having to do with basic self-understandings of health professionals and patients and their fiduciary relationships; with fundamental social, political and economic notions which will and do shape the allocation and distribution of health care resources; with the goals and purposes appropriate to medical interventions of various sorts; and with the care of the whole person rather than the limited attention to a particular illness or disease syndrome. The commitments of primary care medicine challenge in radical ways some cherished claims of modern liberal societies by questioning the limits of autonomous individualism and by affirming the indispensability of social justice.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Social science & medicine (1982)

DOI

EISSN

1873-5347

ISSN

0277-9536

Publication Date

January 1987

Volume

25

Issue

6

Start / End Page

705 / 709

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Values
  • Social Justice
  • Resource Allocation
  • Public Health
  • Public Health
  • Primary Health Care
  • Philosophy
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Paternalism
  • Internationality
 

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Smith, H. L. (1987). Medical ethics in the primary care setting. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 25(6), 705–709. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(87)90098-0
Smith, H. L. “Medical ethics in the primary care setting.Social Science & Medicine (1982) 25, no. 6 (January 1987): 705–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(87)90098-0.
Smith HL. Medical ethics in the primary care setting. Social science & medicine (1982). 1987 Jan;25(6):705–9.
Smith, H. L. “Medical ethics in the primary care setting.Social Science & Medicine (1982), vol. 25, no. 6, Jan. 1987, pp. 705–09. Epmc, doi:10.1016/0277-9536(87)90098-0.
Smith HL. Medical ethics in the primary care setting. Social science & medicine (1982). 1987 Jan;25(6):705–709.
Journal cover image

Published In

Social science & medicine (1982)

DOI

EISSN

1873-5347

ISSN

0277-9536

Publication Date

January 1987

Volume

25

Issue

6

Start / End Page

705 / 709

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Values
  • Social Justice
  • Resource Allocation
  • Public Health
  • Public Health
  • Primary Health Care
  • Philosophy
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Paternalism
  • Internationality