Life, liberty and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
2002
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Author
Title
Life, liberty and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
Published
San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002.
Call Number
QH332 .K37 2002
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
1893554554 (alk. paper)
Description
313 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49903190
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Challenge for bioethics
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Nature and Purposes of Technology and Ethics
Ch. 1The Problem of Technology and Liberal Democracy
29
Ch. 2Practicing Ethics: Where's the Action?
55
Ethical Challenges from Biotechnology
Ch. 3The Meaning of Life - in the Laboratory
81
Ch. 4The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives
119
Ch. 5Cloning and the Posthuman Future
141
Ch. 6Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property and the Price of Progress
177
Ch. 7Is There a Right to Die?
201
Ch. 8Death with Dignity and the Sanctity of Life
231
Ch. 9L'Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?
257
Nature and Purposes of Biology
Ch. 10The Permanent Limitations of Biology
277
Acknowledgments
299
Notes
301
Index
307