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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Indeterminacy and the normative basis of the harm threshold for overriding parental decisions: a response to Birchley
- Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, VIC 3010, Australia; rmcdo{at}unimelb.edu.au
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Indeterminacy and the normative basis of the harm threshold for overriding parental decisions: a response to Birchley
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- Received October 12, 2015
- Accepted October 19, 2015
- First published November 9, 2015.
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April 27, 2016
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