Practical virtue ethics: healthcare whistleblowing and portable digital technology.
Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers' agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of med...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 31; no. 10; pp. 612 - 619 |
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BMJ Publishing Group
October 2005
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