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. 2009 Jan-Feb;39(1):40-8.
doi: 10.1353/hcr.0.0104.

Medicine's duty to treat pandemic illness: solidarity and vulnerability

Howard Brody  1 , Eric N Avery
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Medicine's duty to treat pandemic illness: solidarity and vulnerability

Howard Brody et al. Hastings Cent Rep. 2009 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Most accounts of why physicians have a duty to treat patients during a pandemic look to the special ethical standards of the medical profession. An adequate account must be deeper and broader: it must set the professional duty alongside other individual commitments and broader social values.

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