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1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- The social context of bioethical problem solving -- Systematic approaches to bioethics -- The spectrum of societal responses -- Criteria for success -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Moral epistemology / Thomas Nagel -- Public moral discourse -- Dan W. Brock -- The value of consensus / Martin Benjamin -- Bioethics commissions: what can we learn from past successes and failures? / Bradford H. Gray -- Limiting life-prolonging medical treatment: a comparative analysis of the President's Commission and the New York State Task Force / Baruch A. Brody -- The formulation of health policy by the three branches of government / Lawrence Gostin -- The role of religious participation and religious belief in biomedical decision making / Charles M. Swezey -- Trust, honesty, and the authority of science / Steven Shapin -- Institutional ethics committees: local perspectives on ethical issues in medicine / Elizabeth Heitman -- The ethical, legal, and social implications program of the National Center for Human Genome Research: a missed opportunity? / Kathi E. Hanna -- AIDS, ethics, and activism: institutional encounters in the epidemic's first decade / Ronald Bayer -- "La pénable valse hésitation: fetal tissue research review and the use of bioethics commissions in France and the United States / R. Alta Charo. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics. |
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Ethics, Medical. |
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Bioethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Bulger, Ruth Ellen.
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Bobby, Elizabeth Meyer.
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Fineberg, Harvey V.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine.
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| Added Title |
Social and ethical decision making in biomedicine |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Society's choices. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995 0309051320 (DLC) 94039354 (OCoLC)31609904 |
| ISBN |
0585020000 (electronic book) |
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9780585020006 (electronic book) |
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9780309051323 |
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0309051320 |
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0309051320 |
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