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PDF‘What is (mental) disease?’: an open letter to Christopher Boorse
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‘What is (mental) disease?’: an open letter to Christopher Boorse
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- First published April 1, 2001.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2001 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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