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Auto-autonomy: the ethics of end of road-life issues
- Correspondence to: Professor D Isaacs, Dept of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; davidi{at}chw.edu.au
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Auto-autonomy: the ethics of end of road-life issues
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- Accepted September 19, 2002
- First published August 20, 2003.
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April 27, 2016
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