Inheritable genetic modifications: Do we owe them to our children?

Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications

Volumn 9780801881299, Issue , 2003, Pages 252-271

  Ossorio, Pilar N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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