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THE GUATEMALA SYPHILIS EXPERIMENTS
Commentary
Ethics is not just medical ethics
  1. Lucy Allais
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lucy Allais, Philosophy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK; L.L.Allais{at}sussex.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2013-051114

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