Informed Choice and PGD to Prevent “Intersex Conditions”
@article{Nisker2013InformedCA, title={Informed Choice and PGD to Prevent “Intersex Conditions”}, author={Jeffrey A. Nisker}, journal={The American Journal of Bioethics}, year={2013}, volume={13}, pages={47 - 49} }
I continue to “worry” 1 about how difference becomes pathologized when physicians, medical procedures, and researchers (laboratory and philosophy/social) focus on preventing children of particular ...
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