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Commentary: A Belmont Report for Animals? Rights or Welfare?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2019

LORI MARINO
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 67 - 70
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