When We May Not Experiment: On the Ethics of Randomized Controlled Trials in Policy and Development

2026/03/25 by Bastian Steuwer · 1 voice
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Biomedical Ethics and Regulation #Ethics in Clinical Research #Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies

paper · doi:10.16995/fe.18423

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