The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Pierre Mallia

   Pages 1-6

3. Critical Overview of Principlist Theories

   • Pierre Mallia

   Pages 7-25

4. Phenomenological Roots of Principles

   • Pierre Mallia

   Pages 27-53

5. Principles as a Consequence of the Relationship

   • Pierre Mallia

   Pages 55-77

6. Conclusion

   • Pierre Mallia

   Pages 79-82

7. Back Matter

   Pages 83-86

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This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches. ​

• biomedical principles
• biomedical principles
• health care ethics
• health care principles
• health care relationships
• health care relationships

From the reviews:

“In this volume in the Springer Briefs in Ethics series, the author surveys a wide range of current literature for the principles that conform to the phenomenon of the doctor-patient relationship. The purpose is to examine the nature of the doctor-patient relationship. … As a critical review of the current approaches in bioethics, the book is useful for students and scholars interested in theoretical aspects of bioethics in general and the doctor-patient relationship in particular.” (Shahram Ahmadi Nasab Em, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2013)

• , Medical School, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

  Pierre Mallia

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