Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
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San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N174.957/8
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Nature and Purposes of Technology and Ethics -- Ch. 1. The Problem of Technology and Liberal Democracy -- Ch. 2. Practicing Ethics: Where's the Action? -- Ethical Challenges from Biotechnology -- Ch. 3. The Meaning of Life - in the Laboratory -- Ch. 4. The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives -- Ch. 5....
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Publisher
San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002.
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1st ed.
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California
Date Published
2002.
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"Trained as a medical doctor and a biochemist, Dr. Kass has become one of our most provocative thinkers on bioethical issues. Now, in this brave and searching book, he also establishes himself as a prophetic voice summoning us to think deeply about the new biomedical technologies threatening to take us back to the future envisioned by Aldous Huxley...
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Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
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N174.957/8
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1893554554
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1893554554 (alk. paper)
9781893554559
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174.957
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