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Conference: Interventions in the body: restraint, criticism or deliberation?

19 February 2020

On 19th and 20th February 2020 a conference of the DFG-research project  "‘I would prefer not to’. Organ donation between unease and criticism. A sociological and ethical analysis" from University Göttingen and University Hamburg will take place in our premises

Program and further information: Flyer (German).

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