Imposing Genetic Diversity.
The idea that a world in which everyone was born “perfect” would be a world in which something valuable was missing often comes up in debates about the ethics of technologies of prenatal testing and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This thought plays an important role in the “disability crit...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 15; no. 6; pp. 2 - 11 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2015
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