Challenges in international medicine: Ethical dilemmas, unanticipated consequences, and accepting limitations

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 683-692

  Iserson, Kenneth V ^a   Biros, Michelle H ^b   Holliman, C James ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; TEACHING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MORALS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84862250535     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01376.x     Document Type: Review

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