Empirical research in medical ethics: How conceptual accounts on normative-empirical collaboration may improve research practice

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Salloch, Sabine ^a   Schildmann, Jan ^a   Vollmann, Jochen ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; RESEARCH ETHICS;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84859637633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-13-5     Document Type: Review

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