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How Can Empirical Ethics Improve Medical Practice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

REIDUN FØRDE
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Special Section: Empirical Ethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 517 - 526
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