Human 'Guinea pigs': Why patients participate in clinical trials

First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 165-185

  Ferguson, Pamela R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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