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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2003

What exactly is an exact copy? And why it matters when trying to ban human reproductive cloning in Australia.

B Gogarty

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The book of life.Journal of medical ethics · 2005
    Article
  3. The moral status of the embryo post-Dolly.Journal of medical ethics · 2005
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

B GogartyCentre for Law & Genetics, Law Faculty, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-89, Hobart, Tas 7001, Tasmania, Australia. brendan.gogarty@utas.edu.au

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper examines the current Australian regulatory response to human reproductive cloning. The central consideration is the capacity of the current regulatory regime to effectively deter human cloning efforts. A legislative prohibition on human cloning must be both effective and clear enough to allow researchers to know what practices are acceptable. This paper asks whether the current Australian regime evinces these qualities and suggests that Australia should follow the example set in the UK by the enactment of the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001.

Indexed as

Attitude to HealthAustraliaCloning, OrganismGenetic VariationHumansIndividualityTerminology as TopicUnited KingdomGenetics and ReproductionLegal Approach

Identifiers

PMID12672887
PMCPMC1733693

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