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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2004

There is a difference between selecting a deaf embryo and deafening a hearing child.

M Häyry

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2004. 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
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

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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, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Persons and their parts: new reproductive technologies and risks of commodification.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2009
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

M HäyryCentre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK. mhayry@uclan.ac.uk.
University of Central Lancashire · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

If genetic diagnosis and preimplantation selection could be employed to produce deaf children, would it be acceptable for deaf parents to do so? Some say no, because there is no moral difference between selecting a deaf embryo and deafening a hearing child, and because it would be wrong to deafen infants. It is argued in this paper, however, that this view is untenable. There are differences between the two activities, and it is perfectly possible to condone genetic selection for deafness while condemning attempts to deafen infants at birth.

Indexed as

DeafnessDecision MakingFertilization in VitroGenetic EngineeringHumansInfant, NewbornMoralsAnalytical ApproachGenetics and Reproduction

Identifiers

PMID15467091
PMCPMC1733928
OpenAlexW1993149674

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