'Nobody tosses a dwarf!' the relation between the empirical and the normative reexamined

Bioethics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 226-235

  Leget, Carlo ^a   Borry, Pascal ^b   De Vries, Raymond ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Empirical; Methodology; Theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; DECISION MAKING; DWARFISM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; LEISURE; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BIOETHICS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DWARFISM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICAL THEORY; EUROPE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MORALS; PREJUDICE; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 63449084236     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01711.x     Document Type: Article

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