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Mill on Autonomy

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Mill on Autonomy. / Macleod, Christopher.
The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy. ed. / Ben Colburn. London: Routledge, 2022. (Routledge Handbooks).

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Harvard

Macleod, C 2022, Mill on Autonomy. in B Colburn (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy. Routledge Handbooks, Routledge, London. <https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Autonomy/Colburn/p/book/9780367258207>

APA

Macleod, C. (2022). Mill on Autonomy. In B. Colburn (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy (Routledge Handbooks). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Autonomy/Colburn/p/book/9780367258207

Vancouver

Macleod C. Mill on Autonomy. In Colburn B, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy. London: Routledge. 2022. (Routledge Handbooks).

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Macleod, Christopher. / Mill on Autonomy. The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy. editor / Ben Colburn. London : Routledge, 2022. (Routledge Handbooks).

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