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Acknowledging awareness: informing families of individual research results for patients in the vegetative state
- Correspondence to Dr Charles Weijer, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B8; cweijer{at}uwo.ca
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Acknowledging awareness: informing families of individual research results for patients in the vegetative state
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- Received February 6, 2014
- Revised July 3, 2014
- Accepted July 15, 2014
- First published July 30, 2014.
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June 25, 2015
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