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Heroic Measures: Just Bioethics in an Unjust World
Author(s) -
Zoloth Laurie
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527780
Subject(s) - bioethics , environmental ethics , health care , political science , sociology , engineering ethics , law , philosophy , engineering
In its excitement over the quandries posed by biotechnology, bioethics is in danger of neglecting basic health care needs. What is needed is an understanding of ethics that emphasizes responsibility to others rather than rights.