Ethics, social, legal, counselling attitudes of patients, healthcare professionals and ethicists towards embryonic stem cell research and donation of gametes and embryos in Germany

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 607-617

  Krones, Tanja ^a   Neuwohner, E ^a   Bock, K ^a   Manolopoulos, K ^b   Tinneberg, H R ^b   Richter, G ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Commercialization; Donation; Ethics; Germany; Human embryonic stem cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ETHICIST; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDWIFE; OOCYTE DONATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; EMBRYO DISPOSITION; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; EMBRYO DISPOSITION; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ETHICISTS; GERMANY; HUMANS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 33751072148     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60650-5     Document Type: Article

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