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Commentary: What Kind of Fire or Whose Feet?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2010

John J. Paris  and
M. Patrick Moore Jr.
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Thirty years later we seem no closer to a consensus on the ethics of sterilizing profoundly mentally compromised young girls than was Judge Blumenfeld.

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Ethics Committees at Work
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 407 - 411
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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