Law and Bioethics: A Rights-Based Relationship and Its Troubling Implications

Law and Bioethics: Current Legal Issues

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sperling, Daniel ^a,b,c  

^a NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Law; Medical ethics; Rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449594462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545520.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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