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Engineering Medical Decisions

Computer Algorithms and the Manipulation of Choice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2013

MEREDITH STARK  and
JOSEPH J. FINS
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 373 - 381
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