Anti-aging is not necessarily anti-death: Bioethics and the front lines of practice

Medicine Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-228

  Mykytyn, Courtney Everts ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti aging medicine; Death; Health; Immortality; Pain; President s Council on Bioethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956649522     PISSN: 18764533     EISSN: 18764541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12376-009-0026-4     Document Type: Article

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