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Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Davis, Richard; Hoffmaster, Barry; Shorten, Sarah J.
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Hardback. Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics and Society. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1430.
Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and fre quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine: psy chosurgery, genetic counseling and engineering, artificial heart-lung machines, organ transplants-and on and on. The real "biological revo lution," he pointed out, began back in the nineteenth century in Europe. For it was then that death rates and infant mortality began to decline, the germ theory of disease was firmly established, Darwin took his famous trip on the Beagle, ... Read more
Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and fre quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine: psy chosurgery, genetic counseling and engineering, artificial heart-lung machines, organ transplants-and on and on. The real "biological revo lution," he pointed out, began back in the nineteenth century in Europe. For it was then that death rates and infant mortality began to decline, the germ theory of disease was firmly established, Darwin took his famous trip on the Beagle, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics and Society
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780896030022
SKU
V9780896030022
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