Enhancing the doctor-patient relationship: living, dying and use of the living will
| Autor: | Etheredge, Harriet |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Diplomová práce |
| Popis: | M.Sc. (Med. (Bioethics and Health Law)), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2008. The research aims to establish whether processes around the consideration and execution of the living will help enhance the doctor-patient relationship. Studies have shown that the living will is not used frequently, and that the doctor-patient relationship is often deficient. The research explores the two primary topics – the living will, and the doctor-patient relationship – separately. Each primary topic is approached via a consideration of the relevant literature, and each is then analyzed from a theoretical–ethical point of view. A synthesis of these separate investigations is presented. This synthesis concludes that the living will can help enhance the doctor-patient relationship. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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