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Medical Ethics is a well established field of Applied Ethics; moral philosophy has for some time been applied to the doctor-patient relationship and to issues of life and death. More recently, however, the newer area of Nursing Ethics has attracted attention. It is the task of this paper to explore the extent to which Nursing Ethics represents a distinct subject of study.
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Chadwick, R.F. (1998). Is Nursing Ethics Distinct from Medical Ethics?. In: Morscher, E., Neumaier, O., Simons, P. (eds) Applied Ethics in a Troubled World. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5186-3_7
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