Courts, rights and the critically brain-injured patient

Barry Lyons1, Mary Donnelly2

  • 1School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Faculty of Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland balyons@tcd.ie.

Journal of Medical Ethics
|February 12, 2024
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