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Institutional identity, integrity, and conscience.

Keven Wm Wildes
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Bioethics has focused on the areas of individual ethical choices -- patient care -- or public policy and law. There are however, important arenas for ethical choices that have been overlooked. Health care is populated with intermediate arenas such as hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and health care systems. This essay argues that bioethics needs to develop a language and concepts for institutional ethics. A first step in this direction is to think about institutional conscience.

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BioethicsCatholicismConscienceDelivery of Health CareEconomicsEthics, InstitutionalGoalsGuidelines as TopicHistoryHospitals, ReligiousManaged Care ProgramsMedicineModels, TheoreticalOrganizational PolicyPhilosophyPostmodernismScienceSocial JusticeSocial ResponsibilityUnited StatesBioethics and Professional EthicsHealth Care and Public HealthJournal Article

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Keven Wm Wildes. 1997. Institutional identity, integrity, and conscience.. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.1997.0042

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