Due consideration : controversy in the age of medical miracles / Arthur Caplan.
Due consideration : controversy in the age of medical miracles / Arthur Caplan.
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New York : Wiley, c1998.
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N174.2/165
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English
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xi,282p. ; 23 cm.
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Introduction: Due Consideration -- 1. Abortion and Birth Control -- 2. Genetics -- 3. Technological Reproduction -- 4. The Ethics of Research -- 5. New Treatment/New Challenges -- 6. Rationing Cost -- 7. Managed Care -- 8. Starting and Stopping Care -- 9. Assisted Suicide -- 10. AIDS and Other Plagu...
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New York : Wiley, c1998.
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c1998.
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Due Consideration takes a poignant look at the rapidly changing field of biomedicine and the consequences it will have on our lives. Arthur Caplan, one of this nation's leading bioethicists, explores these issues and analyzes moral questions including: Will we retain our essential humanity if we modify our biological blueprint? Would it be irrespon...
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Due consideration : controversy in the age of medical miracles / Arthur Caplan.
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c1998.
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N174.2/165
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047118344X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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174.2
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