What’s Wrong with Human/Nonhuman Chimera Research?
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is poised to lift its funding moratorium on research involving chimeric human/nonhuman embryos, pending further consideration by an NIH steering committee. The kinds of ethical concerns that seem to underlie this research and chimera research more generally can be adequately addressed.
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Human-nonhuman Chimeras in Embryonic Stem Cell Research
III. MORALITY AND HUMAN-NONHUMAN CHIMERAS......................129 A. Six Cases ..................................................................................129 B. A Proposed Moral Framework and Its Defense.......................132 C. The Analysis of Cases ..............................................................141 D. Revisiting the Moral Framework .....................................
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