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The authors would like to thank Carol Pollard and Stephen Latham for making this collaboration possible.

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  1. Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Drive, Singapore, Singapore

    Zohar Lederman

  2. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Alexandra Cernat

  3. Department of Legal Science, School of Law, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Eleonora Gregori Ferri

  4. School of Political Science and History, Niagara University, 5795 Lewiston Rd, Buffalo, NY, 14109, USA

    Franco Galbo

  5. Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Rue de Lausanne 120B, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland

    Guiomar Micol Andrea Levi-Setti

  6. Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Mayli Mertens

  7. Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Wellington Road and Blackburn Road, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Bryanna Moore

  8. Medical Academy, Faculty of Nursing, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, A. Mickeviciaus street 9, 44307, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Olga Riklikiene

  9. Transylvania University, 300 N. Broadway, Lexington, KY, 40508, USA

    Jamie Vescio

  10. University of Maryland University College, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

    Sheena Eagan Chamberlin

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Lederman, Z., Cernat, A., Ferri, E.G. et al. The responsibility to prevent, the duty to educate. Theor Med Bioeth 37, 233–236 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-016-9366-8

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