Appendix of Sources |
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Editor's Introduction |
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Preliminaries: Why Business Ethics? |
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Excerpts from ``Business Ethics: Widening the Lens'' |
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1 | (10) |
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Unit One: Ethical Theory and Business Ethics |
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Excerpts from ``The Parable of the Sadhu'' |
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11 | (7) |
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18 | (10) |
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Excerpts from ``The Prince'' |
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28 | (4) |
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Excerpts from ``The Art of War'' |
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32 | (2) |
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Utilitarianism and Business Ethics |
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34 | (14) |
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Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business |
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48 | (20) |
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Virtue Ethics, the Firm, and Moral Psychology |
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68 | (17) |
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A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics |
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85 | (18) |
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Unit Two: Distributive Justice |
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Classical Theories of Contracts, Property, and Capitalism |
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Excerpts from ``Leviathan'' |
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103 | (11) |
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The Justification of Property |
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114 | (6) |
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Excerpts from ``The Wealth of Nations'' |
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120 | (6) |
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Alienated Labor and Private Property Communism |
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126 | (19) |
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Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property |
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Excerpts from ``A Theory of Justice'' |
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145 | (15) |
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Excerpts from ``Anarchy, State, and Utopia'' |
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160 | (15) |
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175 | (14) |
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Illusions about Private Property and Freedom |
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189 | (14) |
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Excerpts from ``Ethics and Society'' |
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203 | (8) |
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Justifying Intellectual Property |
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211 | (18) |
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Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property: A Comment on Hettinger |
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229 | (18) |
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Unit Three: Corporate Social Responsibility |
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The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits |
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247 | (6) |
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A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation |
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253 | (12) |
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Economics, Business Principles, and Moral Sentiments |
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265 | (13) |
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The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed |
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278 | (25) |
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Arguments for and Against Corporate Social Responsibility |
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303 | (7) |
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Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-interest and Profit |
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310 | (10) |
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Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense? |
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320 | (9) |
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New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility |
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329 | (15) |
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Globalization and its Ethical Significance |
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Globalization and its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights Preliminary Report of the Secretary-General |
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344 | (16) |
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Rights in the Global Market |
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360 | (21) |
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International Business, Morality, and the Common Good |
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381 | (14) |
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The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops |
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395 | (15) |
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Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects |
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410 | (14) |
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The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues |
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424 | (7) |
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At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are Not All Economic |
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431 | (13) |
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A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis |
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette |
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Unit One: Rights and Obligations of Employers and Employees |
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Employment at Will and Due Process |
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3 | (7) |
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In Defense of the Contract at Will |
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10 | (10) |
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Work in the Family and Employing Organization |
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20 | (23) |
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Work/Family Border Theory: A New Theory of Work/Family Balance |
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43 | (20) |
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Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility |
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63 | (9) |
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72 | (10) |
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Drug Testing in Employment |
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82 | (16) |
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Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing |
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98 | (14) |
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Employees' Rights to Privacy |
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The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace |
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112 | (9) |
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121 | (24) |
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Privacy, Polygraphs and Work |
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145 | (10) |
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Employees' Rights to Safety |
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The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know |
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155 | (13) |
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Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the `Right' to Occupational Safety |
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168 | (9) |
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Unit Two: Justice and Fair Practice |
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Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 268 (1978) |
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177 | (11) |
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188 | (9) |
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Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference |
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197 | (8) |
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What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination? |
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205 | (13) |
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The Definition of Sexual Harassment |
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218 | (14) |
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A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment |
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232 | (18) |
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical? |
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250 | (10) |
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Business and Game-Playing: The False Analogy |
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260 | (8) |
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Second Thoughts About Bluffing |
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268 | (8) |
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Business Bluffing Reconsidered |
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Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics |
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1 | (7) |
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Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules? |
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8 | (13) |
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Unit One: Ethical Issues in Advertising |
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Truth and Deception in Advertising |
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21 | (9) |
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Advertising: The Whole or Only Some of the Truth? |
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30 | (11) |
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The Making of Self and World in Advertising |
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41 | (9) |
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Advertising and Behavior Control |
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50 | (13) |
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Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire |
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63 | (8) |
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Children as Consumers: An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising |
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71 | (14) |
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Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility |
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85 | (18) |
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The Ethics of Consumer Production |
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103 | (11) |
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Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice |
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114 | (9) |
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Unit Two: Ethical Issues in Accounting and Finance |
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Earnings Hocus-Pocus: How Companies Come Up with the Numbers They Want |
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123 | (9) |
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The Ethics of Creative Accounting |
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132 | (14) |
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Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession |
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146 | (16) |
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Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi |
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The Ethics of Insider Trading |
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162 | (6) |
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What is Morally Right with Insider Trading |
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168 | (8) |
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Justice and Insider Trading |
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176 | (17) |
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Unit Three: Ethical Issues in Journalism |
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The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists |
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193 | (10) |
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203 | (12) |
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215 | (11) |
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Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage |
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226 | (11) |
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Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest |
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237 | (10) |
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247 | (8) |
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Unit Four: Ethical Issues in Law |
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Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer: The Three Hardest Questions |
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255 | (14) |
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The Adversary System Excuse |
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269 | (38) |
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Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents: Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System |
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307 | (13) |
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Can Virtue be Taught to Lawyers? |
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320 | (13) |
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Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship |
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333 | (21) |
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A Lawyer's Duty to Represent Clients, Repugnant and Otherwise |
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354 | (23) |
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Unit Five: Ethical Issues in Medicine |
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377 | (2) |
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The Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine |
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379 | (6) |
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Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship |
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385 | (14) |
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Legal and Ethical Myths about Informed Consent |
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399 | (10) |
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409 | (11) |
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Lies to the Sick and Dying |
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420 | (16) |
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436 | (7) |
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Surrogate Decision Making for Incompetent Adults: An Ethical Framework |
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