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Healthcare Ethics Committees and the Law: Uneasy but Inevitable Bedfellows

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De Ville, K., Hassler, G. Healthcare Ethics Committees and the Law: Uneasy but Inevitable Bedfellows. HEC Forum 13, 13–31 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011233409541

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