Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 43-45

  Degeling, Chris ^a   Johnson, Jane ^b   Mayes, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ETHICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION;

EID: 84927656282     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1009563     Document Type: Note

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