Extreme prematurity: Practices, bioethics and the law

Extreme Prematurity: Practices, Bioethics and the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-232

  Miller, Geoffrey ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511547355     Document Type: Book

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