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01-06-2012 | Editorial

Signposts in a Familiar Land?

A Second (or Third or Fourth …) Look at Lingering Bioethical Concerns

Authors: Michael A. Ashby, Leigh E. Rich

Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Issue 2/2012

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In comedy and humor it is often said that we laugh at what we find most difficult: sex and death and social taboos. In bioethics, we struggle to control—or at least order and contain—ultimately that over which we have no control: our “coming hither” and “going hence” (as King Lear has it). Perhaps increasingly today, we might also add the many ways in which we manipulate the body. These are the threads of life. …

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Title: Signposts in a Familiar Land?
A Second (or Third or Fourth …) Look at Lingering Bioethical Concerns
Authors: Michael A. Ashby
Leigh E. Rich
Publication date: 01-06-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry / Issue 2/2012
Print ISSN: 1176-7529
Electronic ISSN: 1872-4353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-012-9371-1

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