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• Title:The basics of bioethics / Robert M. Veatch.
  
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• Author/Creator:Veatch, Robert M., author.
  
• Published/Created:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©2000.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .V4283 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Bioethics.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bioethics.
  Ethics, Medical.
  
• Description:xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0130839760
  9780130839763
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. The hippocratic oath and its challengers: a brief history
  Ch. 2. Defining death, abortion, and animal welfare: the basis of moral standing
  Ch. 3. Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient
  Ch. 4. The ethics of respect for persons: breaking promises, cheating, and lying and why physicians have considered them ethical
  Ch. 5. The principle of avoidance of killing
  Ch. 6. Death and dying: the incompetent patient
  Ch. 7. The social ethics of medicine: allocation of resources, transplantation, and human subjects research
  Ch. 8. Human control of life: genetics, birth technologies, and modifying human nature.