Solitary advocates: The severely brain injured and their surrogates

Patients as Policy Actors

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-42

  Fins, Joseph J ^a   Hersh, Jennifer ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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