The meaning of a disaster

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  • Published 20120306
  • ISBN: 9781921922008
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

‘NO RUSH.’

The obstetrician sounds dead tired through the phone.

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Sidney Dekker

Sidney Dekker is professor and director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University.He is the author of several...

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