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Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder
- Correspondence to: Dr C W Van Staden, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria, P.O. Box 667, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa; cwvanstaden{at}icon.co.za
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Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder
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- Accepted June 20, 2002
- Revised June 6, 2002
- First published February 1, 2003.
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February 01, 2003
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Copyright 2003 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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