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Juggling law, ethics, and intuition: practical answers to awkward questions
- Correspondence to: Professor A Sommerville, Head of Ethics Department, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, UK; asommerville{at}bma.org.uk
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Juggling law, ethics, and intuition: practical answers to awkward questions
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- Accepted June 25, 2003
- First published September 30, 2003.
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April 27, 2016
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