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No Chance, No Value, or No Way: Reassessing the Place of Futility in Health Care and Bioethics

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    Sarah Winch

  2. Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Ian Kerridge

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Winch, S., Kerridge, I. No Chance, No Value, or No Way: Reassessing the Place of Futility in Health Care and Bioethics. Bioethical Inquiry 8, 121–122 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-011-9303-5

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