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Whether a patient with a fatal cancer should be subjected to aggressive treatment and whether a patient's life support machine should be turned off are issues studied in the field of
 
  a. psychoethics.
  b. socioethics.
  c. bioethics.
  d. medethics.

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The study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences is called
 
  a. gerontology.
  b. bioethics.
  c. euthanology.
  d. biomedics.



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: c

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ANSWER: b




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