The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris.
In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the spermatozoon and the oocyte. This individual organism, during the ordinary course of embryological development, remains the sa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 483 - 505 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2014
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