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Commentary: A Belmont Report for Animals: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2019

ALKA CHANDNA
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 46 - 53
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