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Baptist-Evangelical Medical Ethics

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The purpose of this chapter is to explore perspectives and activities among Baptists and Evangelicals in America. The emphasis falls upon developments during the past two years or since volume three of the Bioethics Yearbook.

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Simmons, P.D. (1997). Baptist-Evangelical Medical Ethics. In: Lustig, B.A. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0904-0_11

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