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PDFLaw, ethics, and medicine
A covenant with the status quo? Male circumcision and the new BMA guidance to doctors
- Correspondence to: Michael Thomson School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK; m.o.thomsonkeele.ac.uk
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A covenant with the status quo? Male circumcision and the new BMA guidance to doctors
Publication history
- Received May 12, 2004
- Accepted August 31, 2004
- Revised August 19, 2004
- First published August 2, 2005.
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February 28, 2018
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Copyright 2005 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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