Nothing and not-nothing: Law's ambivalent response to transformation and transgression at the beginning of life

The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body: Transformation and Transgression

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-46

  Ford, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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