Introduction: Medical bioethics
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The key concepts of modern medical bioethics can be traced back to ideas developed in the course of the history of medicine and to political concepts harkening back as far as Plato. This work reviews these historical developmens and demostrates their relevance to current bioethics Available in Spanish in Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam 108(5/6):374-8, 1990
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