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Of rats and humans: rethinking physiological boundaries. 老鼠和人类：重新思考生理界限。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09733-2

Ngala Elvis Mbiydzenyuy, Mbawe Zulu

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Rethinking the nature of medicine: limits of the inquiry thesis through the case of African traditional medicine. 重新思考医学的本质：通过非洲传统医学案例探究论文的局限性。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09732-3

Likhwa Ncube

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Deleuzo-Guattarian de-construction of the mind to re-evaluate undeath. Deleuzo-Guattarian对灵魂的解构以重新评估不死族。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09726-1

Ujjwal Kaur, Preeti Puri

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Clarifying the public misrepresentation of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. 澄清公众对跨代表观遗传的误解。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09717-2

Tara-Lyn Camilleri

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Parents (of minors) are not surrogates: acknowledging (finally) the unique moral space of parents. （未成年人的）父母不是替代品：承认（最终）父母独特的道德空间。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09724-3

D Micah Hester, Erica K Salter, Kellie R Lang, Douglas S Diekema

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Is pharmacogenetics being racialized? An investigation into the reinscription of racial beliefs in modern biomedicine. 药物遗传学正在被种族化吗？现代生物医学中种族信仰的重新定义研究。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09723-4

Lena Steimle, Christina Schües

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Orthorexia nervosa: nosographic category or not? 神经性厌食症：是否属于医院分类？

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09722-5

Fabio Bacchini, Elena Bossini

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Unmasking therapy-speak. therapy-speak暴露。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09730-5

Carme Isern-Mas, Manuel Almagro

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Pain-like isn't pain. Reasserting affective attitudes as the boundary of moral life. 类痛不是痛。重申情感态度是道德生活的界限。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09728-z

Piotr Grzegorz Nowak

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Reconsidering affective attitudes in constructivist accounts of moral death: the case of the decerebrate patient. 重新考虑道德死亡的建构主义叙述中的情感态度：以失智病人为例。

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2025-08-31 DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09727-0

Tyrel R Porter

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