Million Dollar Baby: Bioethicist Susan Wolf Clears Up the Confusion

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13th February 2005

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If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you might want to stop reading now. If you have seen it, and would like to read a careful commentary on some of the bioethical dimensions presented therein, read on…

–Dominic Sisti

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