Experimentation on humans: science, history, politics, ethics and ideologies (Conference, May 31, 2016) (original) (raw)
One-day conference "Experimentation on humans: science, history, politics, ethics and ideologies", at The Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (May 31, 2016).
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