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A moral approach to electronic patient records

N. B. Fairweather, S. Rogerson Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK; e-mail: [email protected]
Pages 219-234 | Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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