Enhancing justice?

NanoEthics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-287

  Garcia, Tamara ^a   Sandler, Ronald ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human enhancement; Social context; Social justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049191306     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-008-0048-5     Document Type: Article

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