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The ethics of policy writing: how should hospitals deal with moral disagreement about controversial medical practices?
- Correspondence to: Dr Eva C Winkler MD, Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, 79 John F Kennedy St, Cambridge MA 02138 and Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, USA; and Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Munich Grosshadern, Germany; eva.winklermed.uni-muenchen.de
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The ethics of policy writing: how should hospitals deal with moral disagreement about controversial medical practices?
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- Received October 26, 2004
- Accepted January 7, 2005
- First published September 30, 2005.
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September 30, 2005
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