Determining best interests in patients who lack capacity to decide for themselves

Clinical Ethics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-21

  Slowther, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992904082     PISSN: 14777509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/147775007780267183     Document Type: Article

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