What 'Empirical Turn in Bioethics'?

Bioethics

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 439-444

  Hurst, Samia ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Ethical theory; Ethics; Interdisciplinary communication; Methodology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIOETHICS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77957076521     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01720.x     Document Type: Article

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