Guest Editorial: On Method and Resolution in Philosophical Bioethics
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Guest editorial: On method and resolution in philosophical bioethics.
A large tranche of contemporary bioethical inquiry is self-consciously focused on purpose and methodology. Bioethics is a field of disparate disciplines, and it is not always clear what role the philosopher plays in the wider scheme. Even when philosophical reflections can, in principle, find application in the real world (and often, in bioethics, there is too heady a degree of abstraction for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0963-1801,1469-2147
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180110000800