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At a meeting of the American Academy of Religion in 1991, Dr. William Bartholome, pediatrician and medical ethicist, argued flatly against the relevance of compassion as a guide for current medical practice. In our post-modern world, he suggested, autonomy has become the key to ethical behavior for the physician. Patients and physicians contract with each other for services. There is no room for anything beyond that contract and its specifics.
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Lebacqz, K. (1996). The Weeping Womb: Why Beneficence Needs the still Small Voice of Compassion. In: Shelp, E.E. (eds) Secular Bioethics in Theological Perspective. Theology and Medicine, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0119-3_6
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