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Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002Edition: First editionDescription: 313 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594030472
  • 9781594030475
  • 1893554554
  • 9781893554559
Other title:
  • Life, liberty, and the defence of dignity
  • Life, liberty, and the defence of dignity : The challenge for bioethics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.957 21
LOC classification:
  • QH332 .K37 2002
Contents:
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.
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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.

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