What is Genetic Information, and why is it Significant? A Contextual, Contrastive, Approach.
Is genetic information of special ethical significance? Does it require special regulation? There is considerable contemporary debate about this question (the ‘genetic exceptionalism’ debate). ‘Genetic information’ is an ambiguous term and, as an aid to avoiding conflation in the genetic exceptional...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2006
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