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Is disability mere difference?
1Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University; Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE), Stockholm, Sweden Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Journal of Medical Ethics
|November 15, 2015
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