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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Encounter Books,
2004, ©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
- 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.