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Facts and Fictions: BiDil and the Resurgence of Racial Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Gregory Michael Dorr  and
David S. Jones
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , Fall 2008 , pp. 443 - 448
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2008

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