1. 1A version of this paper was presented at the VI World Congress of Bioethics, Brasilia, Brazil, October 2002.
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3. 3Although I shall not in this article discuss this point at great length, others who have worked in this area, such as Margaret Battin and Solomon Benatar, have agreed that it is quite correct. A similar point is made by (especially Chapter 8 of ) P. Farmer. 2003.Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Los Angeles. University of California Press.
4. 4I shall use the expressions 'bioethics', 'biomedical ethics', and 'medical ethics', interchangeably.
5. 5P. Ziegler. 1969.The Black Death. London. Penguin.