Global health and justice.
In Australia, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland, the average life expectancy is now greater than 80 years. But in Angola, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, the average life expectancy is less than 40 years. The situation is even worse than these statistics suggest because average figures tend to mask...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 19; no. 5/6; pp. 460 - 476 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2005
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