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Taking biology seriously : what biology can and cannot tell us about moral and public policy issues / Inmaculada de Melo-Martín.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: x, 161 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0742549208
  • 9780742549203
  • 0742549216
  • 9780742549210
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Taking biology seriously.; Online version:: Taking biology seriously.DDC classification:
  • 174.2 22
LOC classification:
  • QH438.7 .M45 2005
Contents:
1. Misunderstanding biology : epistemological, scientific, and moral problems -- 2. Biological explanations and social responsibility -- 3. An introduction to the science of cloning -- 4. Cloning, or not, human beings -- 5. Putting human cloning where it belongs -- 6. Obtaining genetic information -- 7. Genetic information and moral obligations -- 8. Moral obligations, genetic information, and social context -- 9. On the need to take biology seriously -- --
1. Misunderstanding biology : epistemological, scientific, and moral problems -- 2. Biological explanations and social responsibility -- 3. An introduction to the science of cloning -- 4. Cloning - or not - human beings -- 5. Putting human cloning where it belongs -- 6. Obtaining genetic information -- 7. Genetic information and moral obligations -- 8. Moral obligations, genetic information, and social context -- 9. On the need to take biology seriously.
Summary: "Inmaculada de Melo-Martin carefully defend the importance of social and political policies to guide the bio ethical co-construction of a better life for all. As she argues with edifying balance, only by taking biology seriously can we become serious in appreciating its true benefits and counter the illusory hopes and fears that are often projected upon it."--Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 174.2 MEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A402454B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Misunderstanding biology : epistemological, scientific, and moral problems -- 2. Biological explanations and social responsibility -- 3. An introduction to the science of cloning -- 4. Cloning, or not, human beings -- 5. Putting human cloning where it belongs -- 6. Obtaining genetic information -- 7. Genetic information and moral obligations -- 8. Moral obligations, genetic information, and social context -- 9. On the need to take biology seriously -- --

1. Misunderstanding biology : epistemological, scientific, and moral problems -- 2. Biological explanations and social responsibility -- 3. An introduction to the science of cloning -- 4. Cloning - or not - human beings -- 5. Putting human cloning where it belongs -- 6. Obtaining genetic information -- 7. Genetic information and moral obligations -- 8. Moral obligations, genetic information, and social context -- 9. On the need to take biology seriously.

"Inmaculada de Melo-Martin carefully defend the importance of social and political policies to guide the bio ethical co-construction of a better life for all. As she argues with edifying balance, only by taking biology seriously can we become serious in appreciating its true benefits and counter the illusory hopes and fears that are often projected upon it."--Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines.

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