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Harrington, A. (1992). At the Intersection of Knowledge and Values: Fragments of a Dialogue in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 1990. In: Harrington, A. (eds) So Human a Brain. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0391-9_16
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