Health-care Ethics and the Free Market Value System
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Health-care Ethics and the Free Market Value System
Ethics is an ever relevant aspect in every field of human activity in general and health care in particular. From the classical times, professional ethical codes and prayers directed the practice and distribution of the medical care. As the society and its institutions have changed since Hippocrates, so did the practice and delivery of health care changed as the current health care concerns inc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0253-7176,0975-1564
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7176.191387