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Informed Consent in the Human Genome Enterprise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Amnon Goldworth
Amnon Goldworth
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A philosopher and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
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When Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher, declared some four decades ago that man makes himself, this assertion was based on Sartre's belief that human beings do not possess an essential human nature. Man's self creation had to do with his freedom to choose the roles that he played or could play, and their attendant effects on his attitudes and responsibilities. It said nothing about his freedom to alter his biological nature.

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Special Section: Designs on Life: Choice, Control, and Responsibility in Genetic Manipulation
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Summer 1995 , pp. 296 - 303
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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