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On Legislating Fetal Research

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Genetics and the Law

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Although the title of this symposium is “Genetics and the Law,” I must hasten to advise you that I am neither a geneticist nor a lawyer. I assume, therefore, that my presence on this platform reflects a special privilege that has been mine; that is, to observe at rather close quarters the legislating of fetal research, a process with a history confined to the last four years.

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  1. National Commission on the Protection of Human Subjects, Bethesda, USA

    Charles U. Lowe

  2. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

    Charles U. Lowe

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Aubrey Milunsky MB. B. Ch., M. R. C. P., D. C. H. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Genetics Laboratory, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at the Walter E. Fernald State School; Medical Geneticist, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Center for Human Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts)George J. Annas J. D., M. P. H (Director, Center for Law and Health Sciences, Boston University School of Law; Assistant Professor, Department of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine (Law and Medicine), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Lecturer in Legal Medicine, Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts)

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© 1976 Plenum Press, New York

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Lowe, C.U. (1976). On Legislating Fetal Research. In: Milunsky, A., Annas, G.J. (eds) Genetics and the Law. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2229-0_31

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