Preface |
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1 The professional responsibility model of perinatal ethics |
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1.2 Ethics, medical ethics, and perinatal ethics |
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1 | (10) |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (4) |
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6 | (5) |
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1.3 The professional responsibility model of perinatal ethics |
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11 | (4) |
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1.3.1 Rights-based reductionism |
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12 | (1) |
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1.3.2 The ethical concept of medicine as a profession |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (3) |
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2 Induced abortion and feticide |
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19 | (10) |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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2.3 Offering induced during abortion or feticide |
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19 | (3) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (2) |
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2.4 Recommending induced abortion or feticide |
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22 | (2) |
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2.5 Performing induced abortion or feticide |
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24 | (1) |
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2.6 Referring for induced abortion or feticide |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (8) |
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29 | (1) |
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3.2 Clinical outcomes data |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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3.4 Obstetric and neonatal dimensions |
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31 | (3) |
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3.5 Burdens on parents and society |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (18) |
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37 | (1) |
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4.2 A preventive ethics approach to cesarean delivery |
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37 | (2) |
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4.3 Recommendations regarding mode of delivery |
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39 | (5) |
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4.3.1 Recommending cesarean delivery |
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39 | (1) |
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4.3.2 Offering both cesarean delivery and vaginal delivery |
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39 | (1) |
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4.3.3 Recommending vaginal delivery |
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40 | (1) |
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4.3.4 Responding to requests for non-indicated cesarean delivery |
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41 | (3) |
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4.4 The role of destructive procedures |
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44 | (4) |
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4.4.1 Cephalocentesis for intrapartum management of hydrocephalus |
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44 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Isolated fetal hydrocephalus |
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45 | (1) |
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4.4.3 Hydrocephalus with severe associated abnormalities |
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46 | (1) |
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4.4.4 Hydrocephalus with other associated anomalies |
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47 | (1) |
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4.5 Non-aggressive obstetric management |
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48 | (3) |
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4.5.1 Aggressive and non-aggressive obstetric management defined |
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49 | (1) |
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4.5.2 When beneficence-based obligations to the fetal patient cease to exist |
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49 | (1) |
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4.5.3 When beneficence-based obligations to the fetal patient become minimal |
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50 | (1) |
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4.5.4 Counseling the pregnant woman in the informed consent process for non-aggressive obstetric management |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (2) |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (12) |
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55 | (1) |
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5.2 Critical appraisal of the assumption that planned home birth is compatible with professional responsibility |
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55 | (3) |
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5.3 Planned home birth attendants are not acting in a professional capacity |
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58 | (1) |
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5.4 Professional responsibility and hospital birth |
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59 | (1) |
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5.5 Respect for the pregnant women's rights |
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60 | (1) |
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5.6 Professionally appropriate responses |
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61 | (2) |
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5.6.1 What should perinatologists do to address the root cause of the recrudescence of planned home birth? |
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61 | (1) |
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5.6.2 How should perinatologists respond when a woman raises the topic of planned home birth? |
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62 | (1) |
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5.6.3 How should perinatologists respond to a woman's request for the perinatologist to participate in planned home birth? |
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62 | (1) |
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5.6.4 How should perinatologists respond when a patient is received on emergency transport from a planned home birth? |
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62 | (1) |
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5.6.5 Should obstetricians participate in or refer patients to a randomized controlled clinical trial of planned home vs. planned hospital birth? |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (2) |
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6 Pregnant patients with mental disorders |
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67 | (12) |
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67 | (1) |
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6.2 Clinical considerations |
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67 | (1) |
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6.3 Responsibly managing the decision-making process |
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68 | (6) |
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6.3.1 Chronically and variably impaired autonomy |
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69 | (1) |
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6.3.2 Assisted decision making |
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70 | (1) |
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6.3.3 Surrogate decision making |
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71 | (1) |
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6.3.4 Strategies for dealing with strong feelings that these patients can evoke |
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72 | (2) |
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6.4 Clinical applications |
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74 | (2) |
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6.4.1 The decision whether to continue a previable pregnancy to viability and thus to term |
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74 | (1) |
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6.4.2 Intrapartum management |
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74 | (1) |
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6.4.3 Decisions about child-rearing and adoption |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (18) |
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79 | (1) |
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7.2 Neonatal medical ethics: Delivery makes a difference |
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79 | (1) |
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7.3 Justified limits on resuscitation and neonatal critical care |
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80 | (3) |
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7.4 The perinatologist's professional responsibility to reject infanticide: The Groningen Protocol is clinically unnecessary, unscientific, and unprofessional |
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83 | (9) |
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7.4.1 Is The Groningen Protocol clinically necessary? |
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84 | (1) |
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7.4.2 Is the Groningen Protocol scientific? |
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85 | (2) |
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7.4.3 Is the Groningen Protocol professional? |
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87 | (5) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (3) |
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8 Perinatal innovation and research |
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97 | (14) |
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97 | (1) |
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8.2 Innovation and research |
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97 | (1) |
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8.3 Current research regulations |
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98 | (3) |
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8.4 The central ethical challenge |
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101 | (2) |
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8.5 Research designed to improve the health of pregnant women |
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103 | (1) |
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8.6 Research designed to improve medical and surgical management of the fetal patient |
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104 | (3) |
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8.7 Responsibly managing the transition from investigation to clinical practice |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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108 | (2) |
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110 | (1) |
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9 Women and children first: Advocacy in perinatal medicine |
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111 | (10) |
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111 | (1) |
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9.2 "Women and children first" |
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111 | (1) |
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9.3 Justice-based professional responsibility |
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112 | (1) |
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9.4 Challenges to justice in the allocation of healthcare resources to women and children |
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113 | (5) |
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9.4.1 Challenges to substantive justice |
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113 | (3) |
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9.4.2 Challenges to procedural justice |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (2) |
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10 Critically appraising the literature of perinatal ethics |
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121 | (6) |
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121 | (1) |
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121 | (4) |
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10.2.1 Step 1: Does the argument address a focused ethics question? |
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121 | (1) |
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10.2.2 Step 2: Are the results of the argument valid? |
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122 | (2) |
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10.2.3 Step 3: What are the results of the argument? |
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124 | (1) |
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10.2.4 Step 4: How should I apply the results in clinical practice, research, or advocacy? |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (2) |
Index |
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