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    Re-creating medicine : ethical issues at the frontiers of medicine / Gregory E. Pence.

    • Title:Re-creating medicine : ethical issues at the frontiers of medicine / Gregory E. Pence.
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    • Variant Title:Recreating medicine
    • Author/Creator:Pence, Gregory E.
    • Published/Created:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2000.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects: Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
      Medical ethics.
      Bioethics.
    • Medical Subjects:Ethics, Medical.
      Bioethics.
      Genetic Engineering.
    • Description:x, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Summary:"In this book, Pence turns his skeptic's eye to a spectrum of ethical issues on medicine's frontier, including gene therapy to produce "brave new babies," cloning, the sale of human body parts and eggs, and experiments on human embryos."--Jacket.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0847696901 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. Re-creating Medicine by Re-Creating Medical Ethics
      2. Re-creating the Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Ethics of Cybermedicine
      3. Re-creating Organ Donation:The Case for Reimbursement
      4. Re-creating Motherhood: Buying Reproductive Help
      5. Re-creating Children: Choosing Traits
      6. Re-creating Our Genes: Cloning Humans
      7. Re-creating Nature: Patenting Human Genes?
      8. Re-creating Ourselves: No Limits
      9. Re-creating Bioethics
      10. Conclusions and Reflections.
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