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Teaching and learning ethics
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Double effect: a useful rule that alone cannot justify hastening death
- Correspondence to J Andrew Billings, 11 1/2 Hilliard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; jandrew.billings{at}gmail.com
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Double effect: a useful rule that alone cannot justify hastening death
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- Received November 5, 2010
- Revised January 21, 2011
- Accepted February 6, 2011
- First published April 8, 2011.
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June 17, 2011
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