What do American bioethics and médecins sans frontières have in common? The relevance of talcott parsons's theory of universalism, particularism, and modernity

After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 289-307

  Fox, Renée C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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