Preembryo personhood: An assessment of the President's Council arguments

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 433-453

  Strong, Carson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Essential property; Moral standing; Personhood; Preembryo; President's Council on Bioethics; Stem cell; Substantial identity; Therapeutic cloning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORALITY; PERSONHOOD; RIGHT TO LIFE; STEM CELL;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CLONING, ORGANISM; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PERSONHOOD; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 33750925231     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-006-9016-7     Document Type: Article

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