Rich Cases: The Ethics of Thick Description

Hastings Center Report 21 (4):12-17 (1991)
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Abstract

When cases are described thinly to protect patient confidentiality, they teach us only what we put into them. Thick description, like myth, allows a fuller moral response.

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