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I wish, in this paper, to explore the idea of applied ethics in medicine as a special type of ongoing conversation and to see how far this “conversation” metaphor can be pushed before it loses its utility. In listening to the preceding papers, I was struck by a number of observations that seem compatible with what I wish to do here. Accordingly, I shall begin by reviewing these observations briefly, to set the stage for what follows.
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Brody, H. (1989). Applied Ethics. In: Hoffmaster, B., Freedman, B., Fraser, G. (eds) Clinical Ethics. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3708-2_10
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