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Expert Testimony by a Bioethicist

Perspectives and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

JOHN J. PARIS
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 469 - 475
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