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social contract
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social contract
Medical practice The implied understanding between physician and Pt that the former provides the best possible care in a truthful and timely fashion, in exchange for the latter's trust. See Doctor-patient relationship.


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Others have proclaimed social contract theories to be the way forward in business ethics (see, e.
She summarizes and critiques the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls; explores the relationship of terrorism to social contract theory; and proposes strategies for ameliorating terrorism by fostering governmental legitimacy.
It rests on the insight that social contract theories correspond so closely to the design of states that they cannot really tell us how to do justice to those who fall outside the basic requirements of equal citizenship.
 
 
 
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