Ethical analyses of vaccines grown in human cell strains derived from abortion: Arguments and Internet search

Vaccine

Volumn 22, Issue 31-32, 2004, Pages 4238-4244

  Zimmerman, Richard Kent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Ethics; Rubella vaccine; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

DIPLOID CELL VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOVAX; RABIES VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE;

ABORTION; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNET; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ALTRUISM; CELL LINE; COMPLICITY; COST OF ILLNESS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; INTERNET; LUNG; RESEARCH; RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINATION;

EID: 4944253792     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.04.034     Document Type: Article

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