Privacy, the individual and genetic information: a Buddhist perspective.
Bioinformatics is a new field of study whose ethical implications involve a combination of bioethics, computer ethics and information ethics. This paper is an attempt to view some of these implications from the perspective of Buddhism. Privacy is a central concern in both computer/information ethics...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 23; no. 7; pp. 403 - 413 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2009
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