Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees is the first resource designed expressly to address the range of work performed by ethics committees as part of their

Definitive and comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees confronted with ethically challenging situations.

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The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but wa