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Ethical Theories Applied to End-of-Life Medical Care

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While medical ethics can be dated back to the Ancient Greeks, cotemporary bioethics’ origin is typically dated to the early 1970s.

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Searight, H.R. (2019). Ethical Theories Applied to End-of-Life Medical Care. In: Ethical Challenges in Multi-Cultural Patient Care. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23544-4_2

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