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Personal responsibility for health as a rationing criterion: why we don’t like it and why maybe we should
- Dr Alena M Buyx, The Harvard Program in Ethics and Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Francois Xavier Building, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA; alena_buyx{at}hms.harvard.edu
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Personal responsibility for health as a rationing criterion: why we don’t like it and why maybe we should
Publication history
- Received December 21, 2007
- Revised April 28, 2008
- Accepted May 9, 2008
- First published November 28, 2008.
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November 03, 2016
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2008 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Institute of Medical Ethics
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