Powers That Make Us Human: The Foundations of Medical Ethics

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University of Illinois Press (1985)
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In Powers That Make Us Human eight outstanding philosophers of medicine address those questions by exploring some of our most crucial ethical dimensions and issues--mortality, honor, subsistence, feelings, reason, justice, hope, and virtue. Their writings suggest the multi-faceted essence of what it means to be human.

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