Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics

by Barry Hoffmaster, Sarah J. Shorten, John W. Davis, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461262410
• ISBN13: 9781461262411
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"