Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine (review)
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عنوان ژورنال: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1529-8795
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2000.0047