Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 545-563 , December 2006

Patients who challenge

  • Michael Ward (Consultant Anaesthetist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer)

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☆ Parts of these arguments appear in Savulescu J., Controversial Choices in Rhodes R, Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics. Forthcoming 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2006.09.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 545-563 , December 2006

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