The Problem of Coerced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 463-475

  Nie, Jing Bao ^a,b  

^a Hunan College of Chinese Medicine   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDUCED ABORTION; LIFE; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MORALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CHINA; COERCION; CONFUCIANISM; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; LIFE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MORALS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0033191416     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180199004077     Document Type: Article

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