Bioethics: Are Our Priorities Right?

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1207-1216

  Ehrlich, Paul R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human predicament; Lomborg; Values; Warfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347093617     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[1207:BAOPR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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