The Uses and Abuses of Moral Theory in Bioethics

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-430

  de Vries, Raymond ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical ethics; Is ought problem; Sociology of bioethics; Upstream bioethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955181015     PISSN: 13862820     EISSN: 15728447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-011-9290-y     Document Type: Article

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