Is the creation of admixed embryos "an offense against human dignity"?

Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-114

  Jones, David Albert ^a  

^a Anscombe Bioethics Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admixed human nonhuman embryos; Human dignity

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CLONING; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; PERSONHOOD;

ACHIEVEMENT; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; PERSONHOOD;

EID: 79953311908     PISSN: 10287825     EISSN: 20430469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/hrge.v16i1.87     Document Type: Article

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