Kass, Leon, <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1594030472 9781594030475 1893554554 9781893554559 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002074225 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bioethics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH332  / .K37 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>174.957