Life Liberty and the Defense of Dignity The Challenge for Bioethics

Name: Life Liberty and the Defense of Dignity The Challenge for Bioethics
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ISBN: 9781594030475

ISBN-10: 1594030472

ISBN-13: 9781594030475

Edition: 2004

Authors: Leon Kass

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We are walking too quickly down the road to physical and psychological utopia without pausing to assess the potential damage to our humanity from this brave new biology.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 12/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 297
Size: 6.19" wide x 8.77" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction


Nature and Purposes of Technology and Ethics



The Problem of Technology and Liberal Democracy



Practicing Ethics: Where's the Action?


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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index