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Clinical ethics
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Neurotrauma and the RUB: where tragedy meets ethics and science
- Correspondence to Professor Grant Gillett, Professor of Medical Ethics, Otago Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, 201 Great King St, Dunedin (PO Box 913), New Zealand; grant.gillett{at}stonebow.otago.ac.nz
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Neurotrauma and the RUB: where tragedy meets ethics and science
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- Received April 22, 2010
- Revised June 23, 2010
- Accepted July 8, 2010
- First published September 18, 2010.
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November 26, 2010
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