How will the economic downturn affect academic bioethics?

Bioethics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 226-233

  Epstein, Miran ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic bioethics; Bioethics; History; Ideology; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ETHICS; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; TRENDS;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS;

EID: 77955130512     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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