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Editorial
Weaponising medicine: “Tutti fratelli,” no more
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Tom Koch, PhD is a bioethicist, gerontologist, and medical geographer with appointments at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of a number of books on medicine and ethics, including the 2005 Cartographies of Disease.
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