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Competing Imperatives? Moral and Public Health Duties of Preventing and Treating Infectious Disease in Prisons

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  1. U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, PA, 17013, USA

    José de Arimatéia da Cruz

  2. Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, University Hall 234, Savannah, GA, 31419, USA

    José de Arimatéia da Cruz

  3. Department of Health Sciences (Public Health), Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, University Hall 154F, Savannah, GA, 31419, USA

    Leigh E. Rich

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de Arimatéia da Cruz, J., Rich, L.E. Competing Imperatives? Moral and Public Health Duties of Preventing and Treating Infectious Disease in Prisons. Bioethical Inquiry 11, 105–108 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-014-9508-5

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