Would treatment allocation according to age-contingent depreciation be ethical? A dialysis & transplantation paradigm

Ethics and Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-107

  Rutecki, Gregory W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 84859997446     PISSN: 0266688X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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