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Bioethics : issues and dilemmas / Tyler N. Pace, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ethical issues in the 21st century series.
- Ethical issues in the 21st century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics.
- Bioethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (155 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. This book presents research in the expansive field of bioethics including biomedical ethics in obstetrics, ethical decision making in the health care system, and the feasibility of using human oocytes for stem cell research.
- Contents:
- Surgical vaccine : should male circumcision be mandatory in Sub-Saharan Africa / Peter A. Clark, Justin Eisenman, Stephen Szapor
- Medical ethics in obstetrics : a French experiment / Patrick Leblanc, Pierre-Olivier Arduin
- The "real world" of ethical decision-making : insights from research / Pam McGrath
- The rights of future generations in environmental ethics / Carlo Petrini
- Different approaches to principles of biomedical ethics : a philosophical analysis and discussion of the theories of the American ethicists Tom L. Beauchamp & James F. Childress and the Danish philosophers Jakob Rendtorff & Peter Kemp / Mette Ebbesen
- Oophorectomy specimens as a potential source of oocytes for human embryonic stem cell research / MiKyung Kim.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1-61728-700-8
- OCLC:
- 923664380
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