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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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61) Given Nussbaum's professedly consequentialist view with respect to capabilities, however, and her observation that her project is "urgently practical," (62) one might wonder whether her unwillingness to jettison contractarianism might stem from similarly consequentialist motives.
As Puka (1994b) put it, "the moral depictions in his stages reputedly leaned toward ethical rationalism, Kantianism, social contractarianism, meta-ethical objectivism, and formalism," which critics said "was progressively 'read in' to the data" (p.
 
 
 
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