Insurers as moral actors

Risk and Morality

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 284-316

  Heimer, Carol A ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

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