Issues in biomedical ethics /

Yount, Lisa.

Issues in biomedical ethics / Biomedical ethics by Lisa Yount. - San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c1998. - 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Contemporary issues . - Contemporary issues (San Diego, Calif.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

1560064765 (alk. paper)

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

YA R 724 / .Y73 1998

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