@article{ref1,
title="The nature and limits of violence",
journal="Mount Sinai journal of medicine",
year="1996",
author="Gert, B.",
volume="63",
number="2",
pages="72-76",
abstract="I take advantage of a point made by H. J. Gert, in &quot;Rights and Rights Violators: A New Approach to the Nature of Rights&quot; (The Journal of Philosophy 1990; 87 (12): 688-694) to provide the following definition of violence. &quot;Violence is an intentional or knowing attempt by a moral agent to directly cause harm, i.e., death, pain, disability, loss of freedom or pleasure, to someone who is protected by morality without the consent of that person.&quot; I show how this definition applies to violence in hospitals and discuss some of the ethical problems created by violent patients.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0027-2507",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}