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64Assisted Reproductive Technology in Spain: Considering Women's InterestsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (3): 228. 2009.It might come as a surprise to many that Spain, a country with a strong Catholic tradition that officially banned contraceptive technologies until 1978, has some of the most liberal regulations in assisted reproduction in the world. Law No. 35/1988 was one of the first and most detailed acts of legislation undertaken on the subject of assisted-conception procedures. Indeed, not only did the law permit research on nonviable embryos, it made assisted reproductive technologies available to any woma…Read more
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14Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “A Duty to Participate in Research: Does Social Context Matter?”American Journal of Bioethics 8 (10): 3-4. 2008.Because of the important benefits that biomedical research offers to humans, some have argued that people have a general moral obligation to participate in research. Although the defense of such a putative moral duty has raised controversy, few scholars, on either side of the debate, have attended to the social context in which research takes place and where such an obligation will be discharged. By reflecting on the social context in which a presumed duty to participate in research will obtain,…Read more
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell University
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Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell UniversityProfessor
New York, NY, United States of America
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