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Re-creating medicine : ethical issues at the frontiers of medicine / Gregory E. Pence.
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Title:Re-creating medicine : ethical issues at the frontiers of medicine / Gregory E. Pence.
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Variant Title:Recreating medicine
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Author/Creator:Pence, Gregory E.
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Published/Created:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2000.
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Location:PARC (circulating) (Order via Document Delivery)Where is this?
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Call Number: W50 .P453 2000
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:PARC (circulating) (Order via Document Delivery)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects: Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
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Medical Subjects:Ethics, Medical.
Bioethics.
Genetic Engineering.
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Description:x, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:0847696901 (alk. paper)
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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.