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    Medical Ethics in the Developing World: A Liberation Theology Perspective
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 (6): 629-637. 1996.
    Standard medical ethical analyses typically focus on the physician/patient relationship, patient autonomy, and the clinical encounter. For Liberation Theology this amounts to neglecting the larger context of social injustice. Medicine is a social institution. Any medical ethics which purports to provide an ethics of medicine and medical practice must necessarily address the larger social issues of class structure, poverty and access to adequate health care. Liberation Theology provides a very sp…Read more