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Respect for patient's autonomy is now regarded as the central ethical principle in medical practice. A successful doctor-patient relationship depends on trust, and to establish that trust doctors need to respect the patient's autonomy. All medical codes of ethics now hold that doctors have a duty to obtain the consent of patients before undertaking procedures. To give valid consent the patient must...
In distinguishing justification from discovery, the logical empiricists hoped to avoid confusing causal matters with normative ones. Exaggerating the virtue of this distinction, however, has disguised from us important features of the concept of a reason as it functions in human practice. Surfacing those features gives some insight into reasoning and argument.
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