The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy

United States ethicist Ronald M Green approaches the issue of embryo research (ER) in the very accessible form of a “philosophical memoir” (xv). Reporting in detail from his experience of serving on several high level ethics advisory boards, focusing mostly on his membership of the National Institut...

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Main Author: Schmidt, H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2003
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-124
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