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Adventure! comedy! tragedy! robots! how bioethicists learned to stop worrying and embrace their inner cyborgs

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Elliott, C. Adventure! comedy! tragedy! robots! how bioethicists learned to stop worrying and embrace their inner cyborgs. J. Bioethical Inquiry 2, 18–23 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02448811

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