The benevolent health worm: comparing Western human rights-based ethics and Confucian duty-based moral philosophy
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethics and Information Technology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1388-1957,1572-8439
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9150-1