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Transnational Medical Travel

Ethical Dimensions of Global Healthcare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2013

LEIGH TURNER
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 170 - 180
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