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M. Wicclair, Ethics and the Elderly, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993, 245 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 195 05315 X.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Terry Carney
Terry Carney
Affiliation:
The Law School, University of Sydney
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Ageing & Society , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 428 - 431
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