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Ethical values; Health ethics; Healthcare ethics; Professional ethics; Virtue ethics
Definition
Professional ethics in healthcare encompasses personal and corporate standards of behavior expected from healthcare professionals.
Introduction
With a rapidly changing world and new advanced technologies come many ethical challenges in the healthcare sector that influence patients, their families, and healthcare professionals. In the past, there were many ethical discussions; however, none of them provided ranking classification of the most controversial ethical dilemmas that would result in their prioritizing and proper solving (Breslin et al. 2005). Nevertheless, ethics and its values, together with professional and responsible behavior of individuals, provide a basis for healthcare practice, and only recently, there have been efforts to define and categorize public health ethics as a public health research area (Slomka et al. 2008). Consequently, there is a need for the...
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Borstner, B., Blažun Vošner, H., Gartner, S. (2023). Professional Ethics in Healthcare. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22767-8_397
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