Baby marrow: ethicists and privacy
A family had a child in large part to use its marrow in the hopes of saving the life of an older child afflicted with leukaemia. Public response from medical ethicists was negative. This paper argues that what the family did was not clearly wrong and that the ethicists should not have made public pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publ.
1992
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1992, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 125-141 |
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| Summary: | A family had a child in large part to use its marrow in the hopes of saving the life of an older child afflicted with leukaemia. Public response from medical ethicists was negative. This paper argues that what the family did was not clearly wrong and that the ethicists should not have made public pronouncements calling the morals of the family into question. |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/jme.18.3.125 |