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This won't hurt a bit: The ethics of promising pain relief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2009

Hannah Kaufman
Hannah Kaufman*
Affiliation:
Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Hannah Kaufman, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, 88 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L4, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
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Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 517 - 520
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