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• Title:Bioethics and armed conflict : moral dilemmas of medicine and war / Michael L. Gross.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gross, Michael L., 1954-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .G76 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Military ethics.
  War.
  Medicine, Military--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Military Medicine--ethics.
  Warfare--ethics.
  Bioethical Issues.
  Physician's Role.
  
• Description:xv, 384 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Basic bioethics.
  
• Summary:An analysis of medical ethics during war and the inherent conflict between the principles of bioethics and the morally legitimate but competing demands of military necessity.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-365) and index.
  
• ISBN:0262072696 (alk. paper)
  0262572265 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Setting the stage
  2. ethics of medicine and the ethics of war
  3. Medical care for the wounded
  4. Patient rights for soldiers
  5. Wartime triage
  6. Medical neutrality
  7. Torture, ill-treatment, and interrogation
  8. Chemical and biological warfare
  9. Bioethics and the end of armed conflict
  10. moral dilemmas of medicine and war.