Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 21, Issue 7 , Pages 830-833 , December 2010

The moral status of the embryo: an attempt at an analysis with the aid of David Hume’s ethics

Received 15 April 2010 ,Revised 30 June 2010 ,Accepted 6 July 2010.

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 Jörg Bernhard Engel, born 18 October 1972, studied medicine at University of Göttingen, Germany until 2000. From January 2001, he undertook an internship at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Clinic Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. From August 2002, he worked at Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Paris, France. From April 2003, he worked as a research fellow at the Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute at Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, USA. From April 2005, he undertook his residency in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Würzburg, Germany and he obtained a position as attending physician in this department in December 2008.

PII: S1472-6483(10)00457-8

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.07.003

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 21, Issue 7 , Pages 830-833 , December 2010

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