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Kopelman, L.M. (1997). Medicine’s Challenge to Relativism: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation. In: Carson, R.A., Burns, C.R. (eds) Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48133-2_16
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