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The medically examined applicant for private insurance and his/her right to informed consent: a comparative analysis

Sarah Defloor1

  • 1Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

European Journal of Health Law
|August 30, 2011
PubMed

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