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Life, liberty and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics /
At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: "Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic 'enhancement, ' for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academ...
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San Francisco :
Encounter Books,
2004, ©2002.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Contents; Introduction; Nature and Purposes of Technologyand Ethics; CHAPTER ONE The Problem of Technology and Liberal Democracy; CHAPTER TWO Practicing Ethics: Where's the Action?; Ethical Challenges from Biotechnology; Life and Lineage: Genetics and the Beginning of Life; CHAPTER THREE The Meaning of Lifein the Laboratory; CHAPTER FOUR The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives; CHAPTER FIVE Cloning and the Posthuman Future; CHAPTER SIX Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property and the Price of Progress; Death and Immortality: Staying Human at the End of Life; CHAPTER SEVEN Is There a Right to Die? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER EIGHT Death with Dignity and the Sanctity of LifeCHAPTER NINE L'Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?; Nature and Purposes of Biology; CHAPTER TEN The Permanent Limitations of Biology; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index. | |
| 520 | |a At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: "Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic 'enhancement, ' for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills. For anyone who cares about preserving our humanity, the time has come for paying attention." Trained as a medical doctor and biochemist, Dr. Kass has become one of our most provocative thinkers on bioethical issue. | ||
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