What we may learn - and need - from pandemic fiction.

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry, and Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA.

Published: July 2020

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