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Unrequited Love Hurts

The Medicalization of Broken Hearts Is Therapy, Not Enhancement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2015

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 2015 , pp. 479 - 485
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