LIFE BOUNDARIES IN HEALTHCARE
Care, for critical patients, requires technical excellence and humanism to get technical and scientific high-quality carewithout putting aside patients ́ personhood thus reaching ethic-moral excellence of care. The present discussion points out issuesregarding patients’ selection/election as well as...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Paraná
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Cogitare Enfermagem |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/ce.v12i4.10078 |
| Summary: | Care, for critical patients, requires technical excellence and humanism to get technical and scientific high-quality carewithout putting aside patients ́ personhood thus reaching ethic-moral excellence of care. The present discussion points out issuesregarding patients’ selection/election as well as reasoning/rationing of therapeutic and diagnostic measures grounded by the ethicalbackground of beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and respect for autonomy. These ethical principles were pondered and specified bythe ethics of care. |
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| ISSN: | 1414-8536 2176-9133 |