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A conception of genetic parenthood

We seek to develop a plausible conception of genetic parenthood, taking a recent discussion by Heidi Mertes as our point of departure. Mertes considers two conceptions of genetic parenthood—one invoking genetic resemblance and the other genetic inheritance—and presents counter‐examples to both conce...

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Autores principales: Douglas, Thomas, Devolder, Katrien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30035327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12493
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description We seek to develop a plausible conception of genetic parenthood, taking a recent discussion by Heidi Mertes as our point of departure. Mertes considers two conceptions of genetic parenthood—one invoking genetic resemblance and the other genetic inheritance—and presents counter‐examples to both conceptions. We revise Mertes’ second conception so as to avoid these and related counter‐examples.
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spelling pubmed-65492232019-06-10 A conception of genetic parenthood Douglas, Thomas Devolder, Katrien Bioethics Original Articles We seek to develop a plausible conception of genetic parenthood, taking a recent discussion by Heidi Mertes as our point of departure. Mertes considers two conceptions of genetic parenthood—one invoking genetic resemblance and the other genetic inheritance—and presents counter‐examples to both conceptions. We revise Mertes’ second conception so as to avoid these and related counter‐examples. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-07-23 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6549223/ /pubmed/30035327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12493 Text en © 2018 The Authors Bioethics Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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