Fuzzy law encountering life, death, and morality: A report on nine clinical ethics committees' legal considerations

Ethics, Law and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 149-163

  Pedersen, Reidar ^a   Førde, Reidun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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