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Sep 2008
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Julian Savulescu on Applied Ethics and H...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Julian Savulescu, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, talks about the current and future issues in applied ethics, particularly of the new biosciences. 
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