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Date of Publication: July 01, 2005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2005.041
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Socio-ethical issues in the deployment of life-extending technologies
Suhita Chopra Chatterjee
Sweta Mohanty
Abstract:
As medical practice becomes increasingly technology oriented, health-care expenditure has also increased significantly . At the same time, there have long been calls that medical technologies like other social goods should be distributed by rational criteria, especially when resources are scarce.
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