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ArticleJournal of medical ethics1999

Equality and selection for existence.

I Persson

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Facilitating the ethical use of health data for the benefit of society: electronic health records, consent and the duty of easy rescue.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

I PerssonLund University, Kungshuset, Sweden.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is argued that the policy of excluding from further life some human gametes and pre-embryos as "unfit" for existence is not at odds with a defensible idea of human equality. Such an idea must be compatible with the obvious fact that the "functional" value of humans differs, that their "use" to themselves and others differs. A defensible idea of human equality is instead grounded in the fact that as this functional difference is genetically determined, it is nothing which makes humans deserve or be worthy of being better or worse off. Rather, nobody is worth a better life than anyone else. This idea of equality is, however, not applicable to gametes and pre-embryos, since they are not human beings, but something out of which human beings develop.

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Beginning of Human LifeEthical TheoryEthics, MedicalGenetic Diseases, InbornHuman RightsLifePreimplantation DiagnosisValue of LifeFemaleGenetic DeterminismGenetics, BehavioralHumansPersonhoodPregnancyPublic PolicySocial JusticeAnalytical ApproachGenetics and ReproductionPhilosophical Approach

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PMID10226918
PMCPMC479197

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