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A Menagerie of Moral Hazards: Regulating Genetically Modified Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Sarah Polcz  and
Anna C.F. Lewis
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Columns: Currents in Contemporary Bioethics
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 1: The Future of Informed Consent in Research & Translational Medicine: A Century of Law, Ethics & Innovation , Spring 2018 , pp. 180 - 184
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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About This Column

Mark A. Rothstein serves as the section editor for Currents in Contemporary Ethics. Professor Rothstein is the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and the Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky. (mark.rothstein@louisville.edu)

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