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“Human Drugs” in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study

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Confucian Bioethics

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Nie, JB. (1999). “Human Drugs” in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study. In: Fan, R. (eds) Confucian Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46867-0_7

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