Appeals to individual responsibility for health--reconsidering the luck egalitarian perspective.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
دوره 22 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013