Bioethics and professional identity: the healthcare worker's construction of the experience of him/herself¹

This study approaches bioethics as discourse inside broad cultural changes and also in its growing impacts on the constitution of the healthcare professional's identity. Two theses, based on Giddens' theoretical framework, are presented. The first is that bioethics potentially is an abstra...

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Main Authors: Flávia Regina Souza Ramos, Jorge Ramos Do Ó
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp) 2010-01-01
Series:Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832010000100002&lng=en&tlng=en