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Volume 328:1360 May 6, 1993 Number 18
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Economics and Ethics in Health Care
If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care

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By Arthur L. Caplan. 348 pp. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1992. $29.95. ISBN 0-253-31307-4.

This book collects 19 articles written by a prominent American bioethicist over the past 10 years. Seventeen of the articles appeared elsewhere, 12 in journals and 5 in other book collections. The other two, one on the human genome project and the other on autonomy, were written specifically for this book. Since many of the previously published articles appeared in journals and books that are not readily accessible, this collection is helpful, because it brings together in a single book major articles written by Professor Caplan on numerous issues in medical ethics.

The lively journalistic style makes these essays easy . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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