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Dear readers,
A very Happy New Year to you! Unfortunately our editor, Michael Cook, is ill this week. We will be back again next week with a full edition of BioEdge.
Best wishes,
Xavier Symons
Deputy Editor
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Xavier Symons is a bioethicist and scholar in residence at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics at Georgetown University.
Latest posts by Xavier Symons (see all)
- Can machines be moral? - March 7, 2021
- Can we synthesise Christianity moral theology with secular bioethics? - November 28, 2020
- Euthanasia polling data may fail to capture people’s considered views - August 15, 2020
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