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Nursing, obedience, and complicity with eugenics: a contextual interpretation of nursing morality at the turn of the twentieth century
- Correspondence to: Chris Gastmans Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; Chris.Gastmans{at}med.kuleuven.be
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Nursing, obedience, and complicity with eugenics: a contextual interpretation of nursing morality at the turn of the twentieth century
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- Received November 10, 2004
- Accepted May 11, 2005
- Revised May 10, 2005
- First published January 30, 2006.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2006 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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