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The ethics of semantics in medicine
- Correspondence to Dr David Shaw, Health, Ethics and Society, Maastricht University Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht, The Netherlands; d.shaw{at}maastrichtuniversity.nl
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The ethics of semantics in medicine
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- Received December 23, 2020
- Accepted August 1, 2021
- First published August 26, 2021.
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May 19, 2023
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