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Nursing ethics as a robust clinical and academic specialty has yet to be fully integrated into the larger field of clinical ethics, even as it enjoys a history dating back to the 1800s. This introduction to the JCE special issue on nursing ethics traces that history and provides an overview of concepts and ethical concerns unique to nursing ethics, many of which will be unfamiliar to leading clinical ethics scholars and consultants.
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