What exactly is an exact copy? And why it matters when trying to ban human reproductive cloning in Australia

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 84-89

  Gogarty, Brendan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDEPENDENCE; INDIVIDUALITY; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF ESTEEM; UNITED KINGDOM;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CLONING, ORGANISM; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; TERMINOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037398625     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.29.2.84     Document Type: Article

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