Money, morals and the conquest of mortality*

Little, J Miles

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05624.x

Topics

Ethics and law

A recent editorial in the New York Times makes disturbing reading. It says, in part:

Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

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