A plea for a touch of realism: reply to P Whitaker
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 16 (3) , 134-135
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.16.3.134
Abstract
This reply to P Whitaker's `Resource allocation: a plea for a touch of realism' acknowledges that health-care ethics should be relevant to events in the real world, but questions the extent to which philosophical inquiry should be confined to parameters determined by existing sociopolitical forces.Keywords
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