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Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood

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  1. Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Marcus Düwell

  2. Universität Basel, Switzerland

    Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

  3. Universität Tübingen, Germany

    Dietmar Mieth

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Honnefelder, L. (2008). Bioethics and the Normative Concept of Human Selfhood. In: Düwell, M., Rehmann-Sutter, C., Mieth, D. (eds) The Contingent Nature of Life. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6764-8_6

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