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Digital twins running amok? Open questions for the ethics of an emerging medical technology
- Correspondence to Dr Daniel W Tigard, Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany; daniel.tigard{at}tum.de
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Digital twins running amok? Open questions for the ethics of an emerging medical technology
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- Received April 20, 2021
- Accepted April 26, 2021
- First published May 7, 2021.
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May 21, 2021
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