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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS brings you balanced coverage of the most pressing topics in bioethics, including partial-birth abortion, organ transplants, and global pandemics, to name a few. With a diverse range of classic and current essays as well as actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding medical ethics scholars, this anthology will help you understand each issue from a variety of standpointsï'including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal experts, and philosophers.
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Beauchamp and Walters (both ethics, Georgetown U.) are joined by two new co-editors, Kahn (bioethics, U. of Minnesota) and Mastroianni (law/public health genetics, U. of Washington) in creating an updated anthology of classic and contemporary essays on bioethics. Sixty of the 112 selections are new to the seventh edition. The updated text features new chapters on organ transplantation and on biotechnology and bioscience; entirely new selections for the chapter on public health; substantially revised discussion of justice and health care; the uniting of all reproductive questions into a single chapter covering both assisted reproduction and moral and legal arguments about abortion; and a new essay by a Japanese scholar reviewing medical atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese armies during the occupation of China. No subject index. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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