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Dispatches from the Blood-Brain Barrier

Daniel Moseley

Posting here about philosophy, psychiatry, and medicine, and when they're worth the trouble, about politics, books, and films. Reasonable disagreement welcome and expected.

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    I teach Bioethics at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU. PhD in Philosophy. I often get asked what a philosopher is doing in a medical school. This is part of the answer.

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