Living apart together: Reflections on bioethics, global inequality and social justice

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rennie, Stuart ^a   Mupenda, Bavon ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Kinshasa School of Public Health   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

BIOETHICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 58149347326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17475341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-5341-3-25     Document Type: Article

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