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From the Right to Know to the Right Not to Know

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Bartha Maria Knoppers
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , Spring 2014 , pp. 6 - 10
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2014

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