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Jacob Stegenga: Medical nihilism

Oxford University Press, 2018, 256 pp, $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19-874704-8

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Marcum, J.A. Jacob Stegenga: Medical nihilism. Theor Med Bioeth 40, 75–81 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-018-9476-6

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