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How to Relate the Empirical to the Normative

Toward a Phenomenologically Informed Hermeneutic Approach to Bioethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER ,
ROUVEN PORZ  and
JACKIE LEACH SCULLY
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Special Section: Empirical Ethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 436 - 447
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