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The hospital ethics committee and moral authority

✍ Scribed by David C. Blake

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 202 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 0956-2737
DOI: 10.1007/bf00057623

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