Great Issues for Medicine in the Twenty-first Century: Ethical and Social Issues Arising Out of Advances in the Biomedical Sciences
- ISBN-10
- 157331143X
- ISBN-13
- 9781573311434
- Category
- Medical ethics
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Authors
- Dana Cook Grossman, Heinz Valtin
Description
These proceedings examine intriguing issues connected with the advances in the biomedical sciences, including the human genome, the origin and substrate of thinking, healthcare and the crisis of human crowding. They also delve into future ethical and social issues for medicine.
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