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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3/2018

01-09-2018 | Editorial

Science fiction and bioethics

Authors: Bert Gordijn, Henk ten Have

Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Issue 3/2018

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Science fiction combines unbridled narratives of far off worlds and future civilisations with a seemingly solid grounding in science and technology, thus opening up exiting future scenarios that might just really materialise someday, or so one is led to believe as a reader. This is exactly what drew at least one of the authors of this editorial to the modern literary genre at a young age, devouring the books of his father’s library as a small kid. …
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Gordijn, B., and H. Ten Have. 2014. The methodological rigor of anticipatory bioethics. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (3): 323–324.CrossRef
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Title
Science fiction and bioethics
Authors
Bert Gordijn
Henk ten Have
Publication date
01-09-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-018-9848-8

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