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Vol. 150 No. 4748 (2020)

Going first: the ethics of vaccine self-experimentation in coronavirus times

  • Tania Manríquez Roa
  • Nikola Biller-Andorno
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20415
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20415
Published
26.11.2020

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