Sex preselection: An aid to couples or a threat to humanity?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages

  Benagiano, Giuseppe ^a   Bianchi, Paola ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX RATIO; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0344019481     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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