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01.04.2013 | Review

The case of Peggy Sue

verfasst von: Lodovico Balducci

Erschienen in: Journal of Medicine and the Person | Ausgabe 1/2013

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Abstract

In a pluralistic society it is important that patients and health care operators be aware of each others’ beliefs and values. A value history allows the practitioners to identify the patients’ goals and desires and to provide a care congruent with these aims. In this respect the scope of a value history goes much beyond than its original intention to probe a practitioner’s standing on controversial issues such as abortion and euthanasia.. The case of Peggy Sue illustrates how the failure to take a value history may result in medically sound but humanly devastating medical treatment.

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Titel: The case of Peggy Sue
verfasst von: Lodovico Balducci
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2013
Verlag: Springer Milan
Erschienen in: Journal of Medicine and the Person / Ausgabe 1/2013
Print ISSN: 2035-9411
Elektronische ISSN: 2036-3877
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12682-013-0146-1

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