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Justice, Mercy, and the Terminally Ill Prisoner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2013

BEN A. RICH
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 382 - 388
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