A tough transition.

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Published in Nature on September 13, 2007

Authors

Peter A Singer1, Kathryn Berndtson, C Shawn Tracy, Emma R M Cohen, Hassan Masum, James V Lavery, Abdallah S Daar

Author Affiliations

1: Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy, at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto, Canada.

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