Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7336650 Social Science & Medicine 2013 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
► This ethnographic study documents experiences of Jehovah's Witnesses in their dealings with the German health care system. ► Illuminates how bioethical challenges are solved in practice by some German physicians. ► Focuses on refusal of blood transfusion showing different understandings and application of the concept of autonomy by physicians and Witness patients.
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