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Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits

Stephen R. Quake, DS, DPhil

This editorial can be found in the March 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://...

March 15, 2023

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Roxanne Almas, MD, MSPH

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March 6, 2023

In Memoriam: Garland Allen 

Jane Maienschein, PhD & David Magnus, PhD

If you called Garland Allen a Bioethicist, he would surely have corrected you and denied that he deserved such a label. ...

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Rushabh H. Doshi, MPH, MSc; Simar S. Bajaj; Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM

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