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PDFJME40: Good medical ethics
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The impossibility of informed consent?
- Correspondence to Professor Kenneth Boyd, Biomedical Teaching Organisation, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland EH89AG, UK; K.Boyd{at}ed.ac.uk
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The impossibility of informed consent?
Publication history
- Received September 1, 2014
- Revised September 26, 2014
- Accepted October 23, 2014
- First published December 16, 2014.
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September 27, 2016
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