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Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne1,2, Jennifer R Harris3

  • 1Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, P.O Box 1130, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway. i.b.ljosne@medisin.uio.no.

BMC Medical Ethics
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