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Thus far we have focused on biomedical research, which is usually conducted in the medical school or hospital. In this chapter, we move down the street to the university.

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Whitney, S.N. (2016). The Social Sciences. In: Balanced Ethics Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20705-6_6

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