An ethics framework for public health and avian influenza pandemic preparedness

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 235-250

  Kass, Nancy E ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Hampton House 344 ^*  (United States)

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