‘We were only allowed to perform an autopsy on those patients we had taken good care of’
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‘We were only allowed to perform an autopsy on those patients we had taken good care of’
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.4020