title: The irreducibly clinical character of bioethics.
abstract: Current bioethics scholarship and pedagogy suffers from an insufficient correlation with the realities and variables of clinical medicine, particularly in its dominant paradigm of patient autonomy. Reference to various basic clinical factors will be made here toward proposing certain conceptual, tactical and pedagogical modifications to this paradigm.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Administration Medical Center, Buffalo, NY.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wear
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D032882:Comprehension; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D030881:Disclosure; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education; D007258:Informed Consent; D026706:Paternalism; D010358:Patient Participation; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D014481:United States