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Sacred Secrets: Confidentiality, Informed Consent, and Diagnostic Testing in the AIDS Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Richard E. Dixon*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Helene Fuld Medical Center, Trenton, NJ
*
Department of Medicine, Helene Fuld Medical Center, 750 Brunswick Avenue, Trenton, NJ 08638
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Abstract

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Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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