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Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids: An Ethical Paradox behind Moral Confusion?

The Journal of medicine and philosophy - 13 Mar 2018

Hübner Dietmar

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The prospect of creating and using human-animal chimeras and hybrids (HACHs) that are significantly human-like in their composition, phenotype, cognition, or behavior meets with divergent moral judgments: on the one side, it is claimed that such beings might be candidates for human-analogous rights to protection and care; on the other side, it is supposed that their existence might disturb fundamental natural and...

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PMID: 29546413
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhx036

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