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The Case for Contract in Medical Ethics

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The proposal of four models for the ethical relationship between a health professional and lay person was a very preliminary effort in the development of a more full theory of medical ethics. Thus I am quite sympathetic to many of Danner Clouser’s observations about the original formulation of the models.

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  1. Clouser, K. D.: 1983, ‘Veatch, May, and Models: A Critical Review and a New View’, in this volume, pp. 89–103.

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Veatch, R.M. (1983). The Case for Contract in Medical Ethics. In: Shelp, E.E. (eds) The Clinical Encounter. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7148-6_5

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