Parental liability for preconception negligence: do parents owe a legal duty to their potential children?
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One of the new technologies of genetic science is pre-natal diagnostic tests to prevent the birth of children with congenital malformations. Physicians and genetic counselors as real person and laboratories and medical centers as legal person in the negligeecs in the case of patients will be laibel. What is important about the physician's liability and health centers due to a negligence in pren...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- California Western law review
دوره 22 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986