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Snakes and ladders: state interventions and the place of liberty in public health policy
- Correspondence to Professor Angus J Dawson, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; angus.dawson{at}sydney.edu.au
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Snakes and ladders: state interventions and the place of liberty in public health policy
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- Received February 27, 2016
- Revised April 1, 2016
- Accepted April 12, 2016
- First published May 23, 2016.
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March 06, 2017
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