Procreative beneficence: Reasons to not have disabled children

The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 51-68

  Savulescu, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84903732951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511545573.006     Document Type: Chapter

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