When "personhood" begins in the embryo: Avoiding a syllabus of errors

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-173

  Gilbert, Scott F ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Ethics; Religion

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CATHOLICISM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVUM; PERSONHOOD; PHENOTYPE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 46949107073     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20123     Document Type: Review

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