Patients and agents – or why we need a different narrative: a philosophical analysis
Abstract Background The success of medicine in the treatment of patients brings with it new challenges. More people live on to suffer from functional, chronic or multifactorial diseases, and this has led to calls for more complex analyses of the causal determinants of health and illness. Methods Phi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-10-01
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Series: | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-018-0068-x |