Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics /
Kass, Leon,
Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Life, liberty, and the defence of dignity Life, liberty, and the defence of dignity : The challenge for bioethics Leon R. Kass. - First edition. - 313 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.
Nature and purposes of technology and ethics -- The problem of technology and liberal democracy -- Practicing ethics -- Ethical challenges from biotechnology -- Life and lineage: genetics and the beginning of life -- The meaning of life in the laboratory -- The age of genetic technology arrives -- Cloning and the posthuman future -- Body and soul : parts and whole in the midst of life -- Organs for sale? : propriety, property and the price of progress -- Death and immortality : staying human at the end of life -- Is there a right to die? -- Death with dignity and the sanctity of life -- L'Chaim and its limits : why not immortality? -- Nature and purposes of biology -- The permanent limitations of biology.
1594030472 9781594030475 1893554554 9781893554559
2002074225
Bioethics.
QH332 / .K37 2002
174.957
Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Life, liberty, and the defence of dignity Life, liberty, and the defence of dignity : The challenge for bioethics Leon R. Kass. - First edition. - 313 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.
Nature and purposes of technology and ethics -- The problem of technology and liberal democracy -- Practicing ethics -- Ethical challenges from biotechnology -- Life and lineage: genetics and the beginning of life -- The meaning of life in the laboratory -- The age of genetic technology arrives -- Cloning and the posthuman future -- Body and soul : parts and whole in the midst of life -- Organs for sale? : propriety, property and the price of progress -- Death and immortality : staying human at the end of life -- Is there a right to die? -- Death with dignity and the sanctity of life -- L'Chaim and its limits : why not immortality? -- Nature and purposes of biology -- The permanent limitations of biology.
1594030472 9781594030475 1893554554 9781893554559
2002074225
Bioethics.
QH332 / .K37 2002
174.957