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Hurts, insults and stigmas: a comment on Murphy
- Correspondence to Dr James Lindemann Nelson, Department of Philosophy, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, 324 Linton Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; jlnelson{at}msu.edu
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Hurts, insults and stigmas: a comment on Murphy
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- Received August 27, 2010
- Accepted November 14, 2010
- First published January 20, 2011.
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April 27, 2016
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