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‘Encounters with Experience’: Empirical Bioethics and the Future

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I would like to thank my conference co-organisers, and my co-editors for this special edition, Emma Baldock, Adelé Langlois, and Anna Smajdor. Thanks also to Andrew Edgar for giving us the opportunity to produce this special edition of Health Care Analysis. I would also like to acknowledge the support of the Wellcome Trust, who generously funded this conference.

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Ives, J. ‘Encounters with Experience’: Empirical Bioethics and the Future. Health Care Anal 16, 1–6 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-007-0077-1

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