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A new kind of paternalism in surrogate decision-making? The case of Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MSP
- Correspondence to Dr Scott Y H Kim, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; scott.kim{at}nih.gov
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A new kind of paternalism in surrogate decision-making? The case of Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MSP
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- Received August 17, 2020
- Revised October 6, 2020
- Accepted October 13, 2020
- First published November 23, 2020.
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January 07, 2022
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