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Science, faith, and ethics /

Every day, headlines emphasise the impact that technology has on the manipulation of life. We all want to live longer, healthier, happier lives. To live at all costs and maintain life at all costs has become a popular aim. This book examines those costs; it probes the consequences of putting one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hench, Larry L., 1938-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : London ; River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontiers of knowledge: where science fiction becomes science fact
  • Origins of the universe and matter
  • The origin of life
  • The evolution of life
  • Ethical issues of implants
  • Ethical issues of transplants
  • Ethical issues of genetic manipulation of life
  • Effects of technology on health care and resource allocation
  • Ethical issues of birth control
  • Ethical issues of death control
  • Quantum theology: the evolution of faith.