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Elena Popa’s research is part of project No. 2021/43/P/HS1/02997, co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 945339.

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    Elena Popa

  2. Faculty of Philosophy, Center for Bioethics and Biolaw, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Jakub Zawiła-Niedźwiecki

  3. Health Policy and Management Department, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

    Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz

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Conceptualization: Elena Popa, Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Jakub Zawila-Niedzwiecki; Writing—first draft: Elena Popa; Writing—review and editing: Jakub Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Elena Popa.

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Popa, E., Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, J. & Zabdyr-Jamróz, M. Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor. Theor Med Bioeth 44, 379–385 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-023-09631-5

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