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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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A child born with Edward's syndrome: the legal and moral duty to accede to the request for parentage determination
- Correspondence to Dr Tak Kwong Chan, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; theo{at}hku.hk
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A child born with Edward's syndrome: the legal and moral duty to accede to the request for parentage determination
Publication history
- Received May 14, 2012
- Revised April 30, 2013
- Accepted May 23, 2013
- First published June 11, 2013.
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April 27, 2016
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