ISBN10: 9027713197, ISBN13: 9789027713193, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover First Edition Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1982]

Boston D. Reidel Publishing Company 1982 1982 ed. Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 9027713197. Essays on the moral implications of acquisition, possession and use of new knowledge in biomedical sciences.; 8vo; 224 pages.

ISBN10: 9027713197, ISBN13: 9789027713193, [publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Boston] Hardcover Essays on the moral implications of acquisition, possession and use of new knowledge in biomedical sciences.; 8vo; 224 pages
[East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1982]

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Date: 1982. Hardcover. Very Good. Edition 1982. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. 1982. Kluwer Academic Publishers ISBN 9027713197 9789027713193 [FR]

Springer Netherlands. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Springer Netherlands ISBN 9027713197 9789027713193 [US]

ISBN10: 9027713197, ISBN13: 9789027713193, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of medical technology. These advances have been remarkable over the last century, but especially over the last few decades, culminating in such high technology interventions as heart transplants and renal dialysis. These increases in medical powers have attracted societal interest in acquiring more such knowledge. They have also spawned concerns regarding the use of human subjects in research and regarding the byproducts of basic research as in the recent recombinant DNA debate. As a consequence of the development of new biomedical knowledge, physicians and biomedical scientists have been placed in positions of new power and responsibility. The emergence of this group of powerful and knowledgeable experts has occasioned debates regarding the accountability of physicians and biomedical scientists. But beyond that, the very investment of resources in the acquisition of new knowledge has been questioned. Societies must decide whether finite resources would not be better invested at this juncture, or in general, in the alleviation of the problems of hunger or in raising general health standards through interventions which are less dependent on the intensive use of high technology. To put issues in this fashio ...
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ISBN10: 9027713197, ISBN13: 9789027713193, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1982]

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences: Some Moral Implications of Its Acquisition, Possession, and Use. ISBN 9027713197 9789027713193 [GB]