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Testing ground GDR: Western pharmaceutical firms conducting clinical trials behind the Iron Curtain
- Correspondence to Dr Rainer Erices, Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, Glueckstraße 10, Erlangen D-91054, Germany; rainer{at}erices.de
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Testing ground GDR: Western pharmaceutical firms conducting clinical trials behind the Iron Curtain
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- Received November 14, 2013
- Revised August 6, 2014
- Accepted August 29, 2014
- First published October 23, 2014.
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June 29, 2021
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