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3 - Metaethics, Relativism and Empirical Bioethics

from Part I - Theoretical Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2017

Jonathan Ives
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
Michael Dunn
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Alan Cribb
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Empirical Bioethics
Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
, pp. 33 - 50
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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