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Personhood, harm and interest: a reply to Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva

Matthew Beard1, Sandra Lynch

  • 1Centre for Faith, Ethics & Society, University of Notre Dame, PO Box 944 Broadway 2007, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia. matthew.beard@nd.edu.au

Journal of Medical Ethics
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