Introduction: many voices: human values in healthcare ethics

In K. W. M. Fulford, Donna L. Dickenson & Thomas H. Murray, Healthcare Ethics and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell (2002)
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This edited volume illustrates the central importance of diversity of human values throughout healthcare. The readings are organised around the main stages of the clinical encounter from the patient's perspective. This introductory chapter opens up crucial issues of methodology and of practical application in this highly innovative approach to the role of ethics in healthcare.

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Donna Dickenson
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