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Elizabeth Finneron-Burns1, Susan McNair2
1Associate professor of political theory at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Abstract:
Since health is a crucial, if not the most important, feature of persons' well-being, we have good reasons to consider all present and future persons as members of a "league of patients." This article explores what this concept might mean, proposes how it could be applied in the emerging field of existential health care ethics, and draws upon it to better conceive of how to meet the health needs of current and future patients.
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