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Principles and theory in bioethics.

Pat Milmoe McCarrick
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The following citations were selected from BIOETHICSLINE, the online database prepared at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics for the National Library of Medicine's MEDLARS system. Searching the keywords autonomy, beneficence, casuistry, justice, and virtues, as well as the text word principlism produced more than 400 citations. Only the citations concerned with theory and principle in the practice of bioethics are included here -- e.g., works about justice in resource allocation have been deleted.

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Pat Milmoe McCarrick. 1995. Principles and theory in bioethics.. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.0.0072

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