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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Anne McLaren
Anne McLaren
Affiliation:
Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission
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Abstract

In Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Humpty Dumpty said: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” One may not agree with this approach, but it may well be preferable to using a word: (a) with only a vague idea of its meaning, or (b) with many possible meanings.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: CLONING: TECHNOLOGY, POLICY, AND ETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 190 - 193
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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