The ethics of funding embryonic stem cell research: A Catholic viewpoint

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-150

  Doerflinger, Richard M ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPLICITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; JURISPRUDENCE; LIFE; MORALITY; PERSONHOOD; POLICY; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS APPROACH; RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STEM CELL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; RELIGIOUS APPROACH;

ABORTED FETUS; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CATHOLICISM; COMPLICITY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JURISPRUDENCE; LIFE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; PERSONHOOD; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH EMBRYO CREATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; STEM CELLS; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0033143324     PISSN: 10546863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ken.1999.0011     Document Type: Article

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