Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity the challenge for bioethics

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kass, Leon R., autor (autor)
Format: 991009661238206719
Language:Inglés
Published: San Francisco : Encounter Books [2002]
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Conté: The problem of the technology and liberal democracy
  • Practicing ethics: where's the action?
  • The meaning of life in the laboratory
  • The age of genetic technology arrives
  • Cloning and the posthuman future
  • Organs for sale? Propriety, property and the price of progress
  • Is there a right to die? Death with dignity and the sanctity of life
  • L'chaim and its limits: why not immortality?
  • The permanent limitations of biology