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Moral Theory and Medical PracticeKenneth W. M. Fulford Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, xxi + 311 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Eike-Henner W. Kluge
Affiliation:
University of Victoria

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1995

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1 Boorse, C., “Health as a Theoretical Concept,” Philosophy of Science, 44 (1977): 542–73;CrossRefGoogle ScholarCallahan, D., “The WHO Definition of Health,” Hastings Center Studies, 1, 3 (1973)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kluge, E. W., Biomedical Ethics in a Canadian Context (Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1992)Google Scholar; Nordenfeldt, L., On the Nature of Health (Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958), §38.Google Scholar

3 For example, Malette v. Shulman, [1990] 67 DLR (4th) 321. Petersen v. Minister of Health et al. unreported, Dec. 23, 1983 (Ont. S.C.); Thwaites v. Health Sciences Centre Psychiatric Facility, [1988] 3 W.W.R. 217, 51 Man. R. (2d) 196.