Global bioethics: Did the universal declaration on bioethics and human rights miss the boat?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 588-590

  Macpherson, Cheryl Cox ^a  

^a St George's University School of Medicine   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; UNITED NATIONS;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 35348997358     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2005.013797     Document Type: Article

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