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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Harm isn't all you need: parental discretion and medical decisions for a child
- Correspondence to Dominic Wilkinson, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1PT, UK; dominic.wilkinson{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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Harm isn't all you need: parental discretion and medical decisions for a child
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- Received November 18, 2015
- Accepted November 23, 2015
- First published December 18, 2015.
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April 27, 2016
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