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Non-maleficence and the ethics of consent to cancer screening
- Correspondence to Dr Lotte Elton, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK; lotteelton{at}gmail.com
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Non-maleficence and the ethics of consent to cancer screening
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- Received February 6, 2020
- Revised July 14, 2020
- Accepted August 12, 2020
- First published September 21, 2020.
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June 24, 2021
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