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Legal Aspects of Artificial Insemination by Donor and Paternity Testing

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My presentation involves two interesting biomedical technologies with a great deal of significance to everyone concerned about reproductive decision-making, the concept of parenthood, and the rights and responsibilities which originate in and about the family as a social institution. Though these topics have tended to attract the attention of physicians, lawyers, genetic counselors, ethicists, philosophers and theologians, they are undisputedly of great importance to society as a whole as we try to develop coherent, intelligent and humane social policies in these areas.

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    Joseph M. Healey Jr.

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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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Healey, J.M. (1976). Legal Aspects of Artificial Insemination by Donor and Paternity Testing. In: Milunsky, A., Annas, G.J. (eds) Genetics and the Law. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2229-0_18

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