FOOLING MOTHER NATURE An Ethical Analysis of and Recommendations for Oversight of Human-Performance Enhancements in the Armed Forces
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*The ideas and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors only and do not represent any position or policy of any federal agency, academic institution, Toffler Associates, or any other institution or organization with which they are affiliated. The authors would like to thank Christine Grady, RN, PhD, acting director, Department of Clinical Ethics, National Institutes of Health; Steve Kenney; and Jonathan Moreno, PhD, professor of pediatrics and of medicine, director of the Division of Humanities in Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Brooklyn, for their thoughtful and constructive reviews of previous drafts of this paper.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997