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Public healthcare resource allocation and the Rule of Rescue
- Dr R Cookson, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; rc503{at}york.ac.uk
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Public healthcare resource allocation and the Rule of Rescue
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- Received June 1, 2007
- Revised October 30, 2007
- Accepted November 16, 2007
- First published June 30, 2008.
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February 19, 2018
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2008 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Institute of Medical Ethics
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