The child's right to health and the courts

Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 135-262

  Nolan, Aoife ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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