What is wrong with global bioethics? On the limitations of the four principles approach

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 72-77

  Takala, Tuija ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS; ETHICS; FREEDOM; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHILOSOPHY; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH;

BIOETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FREEDOM; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0035649665     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180101001098     Document Type: Review

References (12)

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