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Law, ethics and medicine
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Harm is all you need? Best interests and disputes about parental decision-making
- Correspondence to Giles Birchley, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, Canygne Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK; giles.birchley{at}bristol.ac.uk
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Harm is all you need? Best interests and disputes about parental decision-making
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- Received May 12, 2015
- Revised July 28, 2015
- Accepted August 31, 2015
- First published September 23, 2015.
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January 25, 2016
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