Medicine As A Moral Practice: Reconsidering The Role Of Moral Agency In The Patient-physician Relationship These internal goods and standards of excellence are the constitutive framework of medical practice. 24 They cannot, however, be separated from the element essential to the relationship between the physician and the patient, that is, from the role of the agent-physician in the healing dynamic. Because medicine involves real people, it cannot avoid considering the aspects of ethics that regulates human behavior, that is, the virtues – or the notions of agency and character. Principles, laws, and rules are part of the process but do not compose the essence of the moral self.
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