hinterland
(en)
(noun) the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks; an area lying beyond what is visible or known
Anyone who’s seen photographs of Harlow’s monkeys clinging to wire models or huddled in isolation chambers will know that these are deeply disturbing experiments, carried out in an uneasy hinterland between the scientifically valid and the ethically abhorrent
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