How international is bioethics? A quantitative retrospective study

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Borry, Pascal ^a   Schotsmans, Paul ^a   Dierickx, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOETHICS; CANADA; FINLAND; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEW ZEALAND; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWEDEN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31544478540     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-7-1     Document Type: Article

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