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The use of metaphors in hospital ethics committees: A field study of a children's HEC and a veterans administration HEC

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Splaingard, D.W. The use of metaphors in hospital ethics committees: A field study of a children's HEC and a veterans administration HEC. HEC Forum 6, 223–234 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01452473

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