Dignity and bioethics: History, theory, and selected applications

Human Dignity and Bioethics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 325-346

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b St Vincent's Hospital   (United States)

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