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Corporate Ethics in the Life Sciences: Can Bioethics Help? Should it?

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Macdonald, C. Corporate Ethics in the Life Sciences: Can Bioethics Help? Should it?. HEC Forum 17, 122–134 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730-005-7297-2

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