Do Chimeras Have Minds?: The Ethics of Clinical Research on a Human–Animal Brain Model

Suppose that a colleague proposed a fantastic experiment: to introduce human stem cells into a neonatal mouse so that its entire brain developed into “human-like” neuronal structures. The colleague claimed it would still be a mouse, and that its chimeric brain would be nothing like a “human” one. It...

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Main Author: Capps, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2017
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 577-591
Further subjects:B chimera
B primate
B comparative biology
B animal ethics
B animal model
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