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Chapter Nine - Dying to go to court: Demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty

from Part Two - Understanding and allocating remedy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Ian Harper
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Tobias Kelly
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Akshay Khanna
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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The Clinic and the Court
Law, Medicine and Anthropology
, pp. 214 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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