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BL
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659623
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| Main Entry
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White, Bruce David
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| Title & Author
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Drugs, ethics, and quality of life : : cases and materials on ethical, legal, and public policy dilemmas in medicine and pharmacy practice /\ Bruce D. White
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Pharmaceutical Products Press,, c2007
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| Page. NO
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xxiv, 320 p. :: ill. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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9780789028563 (hard : alk. paper)
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: 0789028565 (hard : alk. paper)
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: 9780789028570 (soft : alk. paper)
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: 0789028573 (soft : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-298) and index
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| Contents
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Tobacco and choices: how values and definitions impact decision making -- COX-2 inhibitors and conflict: how balancing beneficence and nonmaleficence influences decision making -- Marijuana, individual liberty, and police power: how autonomy drives decision making -- The "morning-after" pill and systematic ethics and public policy analysis: how justice tempers decision making -- Pain medicines and palliative care drugs -- Drugs used for assisted suicide -- Drug use in "dwindling" patients and in medically futile situations -- Gene therapy and experimentation
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| Subject
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Pharmaceutical ethics-- United States
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Pharmacy-- Law and legislation-- United States
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Public health-- United States-- Decision making
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| Dewey Classification
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174.2/951
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| LC Classification
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RS100.5.W45 2007
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RS100.5.W45 2007
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| NLM classification
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QV 733 AA1W582d 2007
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