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Review
. 2003 Dec 6;327(7427):1342-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1342.

Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto

Peter A Singer  1 , Solomon R Benatar, Mark Bernstein, Abdallah S Daar, Bernard M Dickens, Susan K MacRae, Ross E G Upshur, Linda Wright, Randi Zlotnik Shaul
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Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto

Peter A Singer et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

The SARS epidemic showed how easy it is for infectious diseases to spread round the world. Ethical as well as clinical issues need to be resolved to improve the response to the next epidemic

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