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Commentary: Freedom Means Self-Awareness and Self-Control: Bioenhancement Can Help

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

JAMES HUGHES
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Special Section: Enhancement and Goodness
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 394 - 397
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