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Justice for All

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As health care becomes more ambitious and medical science creates more expensive treatments, a point is reached when choices have to be made and resources put into one service at the expense of another.

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Notes and References

  1. A. V. Campbell, Moral Dilemmas in Medicine, 3rd edn (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1984).

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  2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5.

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  3. R. Gillon, Philosophical Medical Ethics (London: John Wiley, 1986).

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© 1989 Kath M. Melia

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Melia, K.M. (1989). Justice for All. In: Everyday Nursing Ethics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10399-7_8

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