Hospital as foreign country.
As the world has been broken into ever more discrete segments, normative judgments--as distinct from descriptive--have been increasingly relegated to so-called private, personal experience. It appears that in medical ethics, the autonomy of the patient and the autonomy of the physician must be simultaneously protected. This essay argues for a more community-based approach to ethics in medical care and articulates this in terms of feminist theology.
D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006268:Health Facilities; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006748:Hospital Departments; D012380:Role; D014481:United States