Moral imagination: The missing component in global health

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1207-1210

  Benatar, Solomon R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; MALARIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORALITY; POLITICS; POVERTY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; ARTICLE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORALS; POLITICS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 29644431661     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020400     Document Type: Review

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