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Justifying surgery’s last taboo: the ethics of face transplants
- Correspondence to: Professor Michael Freeman University College London, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG, UK;uctlmdf{at}ucl.ac.uk
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Justifying surgery’s last taboo: the ethics of face transplants
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- Received March 30, 2006
- Accepted June 23, 2006
- First published January 30, 2007.
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January 30, 2007
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