Making Life: A Comment on 'Playing God in Frankenstein's Footsteps: Synthetic Biology and the Meaning of Life' by Henk van den Belt (2009)

NanoEthics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-132

  Ball, Philip ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Natural law; Philosophy; Synthetic biology; Theology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956455686     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-010-0091-x     Document Type: Article

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