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Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism

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Confucian Bioethics

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Fan, R. (1999). Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism. In: Fan, R. (eds) Confucian Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46867-0_11

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