Competing institutions: Law, medicine, and family in neonatal intensive care

Law and Society Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-66

  Heimer, Carol A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033239323     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3115095     Document Type: Article

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