International research and just sharing of benefits in Mexico

Ricardo Páez1, Javier E Garcia De Alba

  • 1Missionaires of the Holy Spirit Novitiate, Apdo. Postal 6, 76900 Corregidora, Querétaro,México. ricardomsps@yahoo.com.

Developing World Bioethics
|February 28, 2008
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