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Face Transplant: Real and Imagined Ethical Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Tia Powell
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , Spring 2006 , pp. 111 - 115
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006

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