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"For nearly 30 years, whenever Bioethics has been in the headlines, Gregory E. Pence's name has been in the by-line. Pence is one of America's pioneering bioethicists, and has never been afraid to go his own way or stir up a little controversy. ""Brave new Bioethics"" gathers 35 of Pence's most influential, groundbreaking and personal essays into one broad-ranging volume. It includes essays on cloning, AIDS, dignified death, and test-tube babies that first appeared in publications from ""The Wall Street Journal"" to ""Newsweek"" and from ""The New York Times"" to the ""Journal of the American Medical Association""."

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Combining clarity and remarkable thoughtfulness, Greg Pence has written a timely and accessible guide to some of the most vexing problems in bioethics.--Kenneth Kipnis, University of Hawaii; visiting senior scholar, American Medical Association

Gregory Pence's lively and very readable essays are sure to provoke discussion and debate. From cloning and genetics to living wills and the value we place on human life, Pence never flinches from raising the tough issues, and letting his readers know what he thinks.--Peter Singer

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Gregory E. Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics, and is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He is the author of Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1998) and Designer Food (2001).

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