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A French Perspective on Hospital Ethics Committees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2008

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MINO ,
LAURE COPEL  and
JEAN-MICHEL ZUCKER
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MINO
Affiliation:
Ethics Project of the Curie Institute, and the palliative care mobile team of La Pitie Salpetriere University Hospital in Paris
LAURE COPEL
Affiliation:
Supportive Care Department of the Institut Curie in Paris, and the Ethics Project
JEAN-MICHEL ZUCKER
Affiliation:
Pediatric Department at theInstitut Curie in Paris
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Extract

In this article we highlight the main points of the development of bioethics and ethics committees in France. We argue that the French cultural context of medicine and its current political transformations favor new models of hospital ethics committee and we provide an example of such a model developed at Paris's Institut Curie, the oldest French cancer treatment and research centre.

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Special Section: International Voices 2008
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 300 - 307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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