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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
Legal and institutional fictions in medical ethics: a common, and yet largely overlooked, phenomenon
- Correspondence to: Dr M Epstein Academic Unit for Human Science And medical Ethics, Institute of Health Sciences Education, Centre for Health Sciences, St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, Turner St., London E1 2AD, UK; m.epstein{at}qmul.ac.uk
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Legal and institutional fictions in medical ethics: a common, and yet largely overlooked, phenomenon
Publication history
- Received May 3, 2006
- Accepted June 25, 2006
- Revised June 21, 2006
- First published May 25, 2007.
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April 27, 2016
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