Competent minors and health-care research: Autonomy does not rule, okay?

Clinical Ethics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 176-180

  Biggs, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992920548     PISSN: 14777509     EISSN: 1758101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ce.2009.009026     Document Type: Article

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