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(I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do: breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals

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(I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do: breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals. / Biggs, Hazel; Ost, Suzanne.
Pioneering healthcare law: essays in honour of the work of Margaret Brazier . ed. / Catherine Stanton; Sarah Devaney; Anne-Maree Farrell; Alexandra Mullock. London: Routledge, 2015. p. 91-102.

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Biggs, H & Ost, S 2015, (I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do: breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals. in C Stanton, S Devaney, A-M Farrell & A Mullock (eds), Pioneering healthcare law: essays in honour of the work of Margaret Brazier . Routledge, London, pp. 91-102. <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138861091/>

APA

Biggs, H., & Ost, S. (2015). (I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do: breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals. In C. Stanton, S. Devaney, A.-M. Farrell, & A. Mullock (Eds.), Pioneering healthcare law: essays in honour of the work of Margaret Brazier (pp. 91-102). Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138861091/

Vancouver

Biggs H, Ost S. (I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do: breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals. In Stanton C, Devaney S, Farrell AM, Mullock A, editors, Pioneering healthcare law: essays in honour of the work of Margaret Brazier . London: Routledge. 2015. p. 91-102

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Biggs, Hazel ; Ost, Suzanne. / (I love you!) I do, I do, I do, I do, I do : breaches of sexual boundaries by patients in their relationships with health care professionals. Pioneering healthcare law: essays in honour of the work of Margaret Brazier . editor / Catherine Stanton ; Sarah Devaney ; Anne-Maree Farrell ; Alexandra Mullock. London : Routledge, 2015. pp. 91-102

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