Medicine, health, and bioethics

Medicine, health, and bioethics essential primary sources / [electronic resources] : K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors. - Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006. - 1 online resource (513 p.) : ill. - Social issues primary sources collection Gale virtual reference library . - Social issues primary sources collection. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Biomedical science -- Clinical medicine -- War and medicine -- Industry and medicine -- Public health -- Wellness and health -- Alternative medicine -- Bioethics -- Sources consulted -- Index.

A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.

9781414406244 (electronic book) 141440624X (electronic book)


Medical ethics--History--Sources.
Bioethics--History--Sources.
Medicine--History--Sources.