German Ethics Council on genetic diagnostics: trend setting?

SWEDISH NATIONAL COUNCIL on MEDICAL-ETHICS Prenatal diagnosis: the Ethics

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Cloning is asexual reproduction. That means that an individual can be created without the involvement of any egg and sperm cells. Cloning generates a copy of the cloned organism’s genesunlike sexual reproduction, in which the offspring takes one half of its genes from the egg cell and the other half from the sperm cell. The cloning debate arouses intense emotions, which presumably has to do wit...

Doctors and ethics: the earlier historical setting of professional ethics

(p. 142); the meaningless Arabic 'rs proves to be a corruption of the name of the Lydian city of Daldis (p. 196); the obvious error of translating pi'sos "peas", as aruzz, "rice", is quite plausibly explained in terms of a corruption in the Greek text available to the Arabic translator (p. 196). One is frequently struck by unexpected ways in which Arabic translators took their own vocabulary to...

Role of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council.