Can Mary Shelley's Frankenstein be read as an early research ethics text?

Medical Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-35

  Davies, Hugh ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MONSTER; MORALITY; REVIEW; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOLOGY;

EID: 3042815519     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2003.000153     Document Type: Review

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