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The role of ethics and ideology in our contribution to global healthThe topic of this article has vividly interested the author for many years. It is fascinating to him that the issues at stake have not changed for the last 30 years or so. As proof of this - and on purpose - references quoted are both those published before 1985 and after 1995 (Table 1). Considerable material on this topic was already available from the mid 1970s on. The end result has been the (re)construction of a scenario that has been stubborn to change and that looks into most of the, still highly relevant, burning questions of then and now on the issues pertaining to the title of this contribution for debate. It will be of interest to the reader to see how we often need to be reminded of the things our peers had evidence of and wrote about long before us - as the examples of Dr. Virchov and of the Alma Ata Declaration, for instance, show
enthalten in: Global health action | 2009



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enthalten in: World journal of surgery | 2009



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