Book Review: Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavior Economics for Medical Ethics by Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby

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S. Scott Graham

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Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavior Economics for Medical Ethics. Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby. The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. 2021, 251 pages, $45 paperback. Publisher webpage: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542487/good-ethics-and-bad-choices/  

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