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The clinical and research ethics of neuromodulation
Paul J Ford1, Jaimie M Henderson
1Cleveland Clinic, Department of Bioethics, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center, California, USA.
Neuromodulation : Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society
|December 14, 2011
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