Enhancement: Are ethicists excessively influenced by baseless speculations?

Medical Humanities

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-81

  Jones, D Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICIST; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMANISM; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33845757552     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2005.000234     Document Type: Article

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