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In Praise of the Humanities in Academic Medicine

Values, Metrics, and Ethics in Uncertain Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2013

JOSEPH J. FINS ,
BARBARA POHL  and
DAVID J. DOUKAS
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 355 - 364
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