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Clinical ethics
The unwitting sacrifice problem
- Correspondence to: G Gillett Professor G Gillett, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin New Zealand; grant.gillettstonebow.otago.ac.nz
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The unwitting sacrifice problem
Publication history
- Received July 20, 2004
- Accepted July 21, 2004
- First published May 27, 2005.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2005 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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