The birth of the empirical turn in bioethics

Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-71

  Borry, Pascal ^a   Schotsmans, Paul ^a,b   Dierickx, Kris ^a,c,d,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law   (Belgium)

^d Belg Advsy Committee on Bioethics   (Belgium)

^e European Master in Bioethics   (Belgium)

^f Intl Association of Bioethics   (Belgium)

^g Europ Assoc Centres of Med Ethics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW;

EID: 13444249994     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00424.x     Document Type: Review

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