Preventing Disease

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 557-562

  Verweij, Marcel ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Medicalization and the good life concerns; Preventing disease; Prevention and impact on health; Prevention in proactive or routine way; Scope of obligations and preventing illness causing

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249122799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch76     Document Type: Chapter

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