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A Habitable World: Harriet McBryde Johnson's “Case for My Life”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2014

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Footnotes

My task here is to honor the two feminist bioethicists, Harriet McBryde Johnson and Adrienne Asch, both dead too soon, who have gone before me in the task of arguing for conserving the lives of disabled people.

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