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In the shadow of progress : being human in the age of technology /
We live in an age of unprecedented human powerover birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In every realm of life, science and technology have brought us remarkable advances and improvements: we are healthier, wealthier, and more comfortable than ever before. But our gratitude for t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Encounter Books,
©2008.
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| Edición: | 1st hardcover ed. |
| Colección: | New Atlantis Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Science and the human prospect
- The spirit of modern science
- The human difference
- Part II: The ethics of progress
- Bioethics in wartime
- The embryo question
- Our genetic condition
- The commerce of the body
- A Jewish-Catholic bioethics?
- Part III: From generation to generation
- Why have children?
- In whose image shall we die?