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Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds / Gregory E. Pence.



Karen Quinlan -- Elizabeth Bouvia and voluntary death -- Mercy killing in Holland -- Baby Louise Brown's in vitro fertilization -- The Baby M case -- Abortion and the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- The Baby Jane Doe case -- The Philadelphia head-injury studies on primates -- The Tuskegee syphilis study -- Christiaan Barnard's first heart transplant -- Barney Clark's artificial heart -- Baby Fae -- Mayor Koch, Joyce Brown, and involuntary psychiatric commitment -- Preventing undesirable teenage pregnancies -- Nancy Wexler and genetic markers -- Mandatory testing for AIDS.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-373).


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Publisher McGraw-Hill I : Philadelphia, PA.,
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xxi, 397 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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9780070380929
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