Transfusion-free treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses: respecting the autonomous patient's rights

Do six million Jehovah's Witnesses mean what they say? Muramoto's not-so-subtle proposition is that they don't, because of a system of control akin to the Orwellian "thought police". My response is that the fast developing cooperative relationship between our worldwide commu...

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Main Author: Malyon, D. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 1998
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 24, Issue: 5, Pages: 302-307
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