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Medical maternalism: beyond paternalism and antipaternalism
- Correspondence to Dr Laura Specker Sullivan, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 1414 NE 42nd St, Suite 204, Seattle, WA 98105-6271, USA; specker{at}uw.edu
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Medical maternalism: beyond paternalism and antipaternalism
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- Received September 1, 2015
- Revised January 16, 2016
- Accepted January 25, 2016
- First published February 18, 2016.
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June 28, 2016
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