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: 9781893554559

ISBN-10: 1893554554

ISBN-13: 9781893554559

Edition: 2002

Authors: Leon Kass

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This book grapples with the moral meaning of the new biomedical technologies now threatening to take us back to the future envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. In a series of meditations on cloning, embryo research, the sale of organs, and the assault on mortality itself, Kass questions the wisdom of trying to break down the natural boundaries given us and to remake the human body into an instrument of our will.

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 297
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
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