The philosophy of psychiatry and biologism
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Marco Stier*, Bettina Schoene-Seifert, Markus Rüther and Sebastian Muders 1 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany 2 Ethics in the Neurosciences, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany 3 Department of Philosophy, Center for Ethics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland *Correspondence: [email protected]
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