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Futility: is definition the problem? Part I

M P Cotler¹, D R Gregory

¹Department of Health Service, California State University, Northridge.

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics : CQ : the International Journal of Healthcare Ethics Committees

|January 1, 1993

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