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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

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attempt to complexify the notion of consent in altered states by presenting contradictory assertions that patients can be more authentic in altered states (enhanced capacity for consent) and that they can become regressed (increased need for touch but impaired capacity for consent). McLane et al.

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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

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At present, researchers can keep these synthetic humanoid organisms alive for almost nine days; the mouse version can be kept alive for twelve days, half the full mice gestation period, which might translate to four and a half months in humans. So far, no country has adopted this rule. The original article can be found here.

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