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    Biomedical ethics / Walter Glannon.

    • Title:Biomedical ethics / Walter Glannon.
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    • Author/Creator:Glannon, Walter.
    • Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
    • Medical Subjects: Bioethical Issues.
      Ethics, Medical.
    • Description:x, 176 p. ; 21 cm.
    • Series:Fundamentals of philosophy.
    • Summary:A brief philosophical introduction to the most important ethical questions and arguments in six areas of biomedicine. The topics cover both perennial ethical issues in medicine and recent and emerging ethical issues in scientific innovation and capture the historical, contemporary and future-oriented flavour of these areas.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0195144309 (alk. paper)
      0195144317 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. History and theories
      2. patient-doctor relationship
      3. Medical research on humans
      4. Reproductive rights and technologies
      5. Genetics
      6. Medical decisions at the end of life
      7. Allocating scarce medical resources.
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