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A Tool for Teaching and Scholarship: A Review of Lawrence Gostin's Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Bernard M. Dickens
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 162 - 169
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2002

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