The Medical Drug as a Technological Object.
This article considers the medical drug as a technological object, in order to determine what philosophy of technology can bring to the study of pharmaceuticals and what the study of medical drugs can bring to the philosophy of technology. This approach will allow us to locate the differences betwee...
| Published in: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 51 - 68 |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2019
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