Conscience and Vaccines: Lessons from Babylon 5 and COVID-19

The New Bioethics 27 (3):266-284 (2021)
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Babylon 5, like other great sci-fi franchises, touched on important ethical questions. Two ethical conundrums relating to the series’ main characters included providing life-saving treatment to a c...

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10.1080/20502877.2021.1959789

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Michal Pruski
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