Should the precautionary principle guide our actions or our beliefs?

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Medical Ethics

• Publication date

  2007-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Economics

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  DOI 10.1136/jme.2005.015495PMID 17209101PMCID PMC2598072
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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