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The ethics of evidence-based patient choice.
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In this paper I analyse the ethical implications of the concept of 'evidence-based patient choice' in the light of criticism of the 'individualism' of patient-centred medicine. I argue that individualism in the sense used by the critics of patient centred medicine is not an inevitable consequence of an emphasis on patient choice and that a concern with the promotion of individual choices is not incompatible with 'communitarian' values. Indeed, I argue that any ethical approach to decision-mak...
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Bibliographic Details
- Journal:
- Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 87-91
- Publication date:
- 2001-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1369-7625
- ISSN:
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1369-6513
- Source identifiers:
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162730
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- English
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