Yount, Lisa

Issues in biomedical ethics Biomedical ethics Lisa Yount - San Diego, California Lucent Books, c1998. - 128 p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Contemporary issues .

Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter titles: How should health care be allocated?
Should doctors ever hasten patients' deaths?
Should animals be used in medical research and testing?
Should human genes be altered?
Placing the stop sign
Notes
Glossary
Organizations to contact
For further reading
Works consulted
Index
Picture credits
About the author

Examines some of the ethical questions raised by the capabilities of modern science, in such areas as health care allocation, the hastening of a patient's death, the use of animals in research, and the altering of human genes.

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Medical ethics--Juvenile literature.
Bioethics--Juvenile literature.

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