Subway and spaceship: Practical ethics at the outset of the twenty-first century

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 24-31

  Benjamin, Martin ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; UNITED STATES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MORALS; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141571343     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3527953     Document Type: Article

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