On cloning human beings.
The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cl...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 246 - 266 |
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| Formato: | review Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2002
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