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Currents in Contemporary Ethics: The Implications of Expanding Access to Unapproved Drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2007

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Footnotes

Mark A. Rothstein serves as the section editor for “Currents in Contemporary Ethics.” Professor Rothstein is the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and the Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky. (mark.rothstein@louisville.edu)

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