Genetic Engineering:Science and Ethics on the New Frontier (Basic Ethics in Action) - Softcover

Michael, Boylan; Kevin, Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130910856 ISBN 13: 9780130910851

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002

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Book by Boylan Michael Brown Kevin

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For courses in Medical and Applied Ethics. This text introduces students to important ethical issues that arise in the realm of genetic engineering. It provides the basic science and ethical analysis necessary to assess central issues confronting our society in this emerging area of research. At the end, students will be able to formulate their own positions on these crucial issues.

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Genetic Engineering: Science and Ethics on the New Frontier is a book that combines cutting-edge science and original, insightful ethical analysis on one of the defining problems of our age. Boylan expands and develops his worldview ethical theory, and Brown sets out the new biology in precise and readable language. This book is both a primer o n the current science and a thoughtful exposition into the ethical implications of these new discoveries upon our lives.

Within this book's modest parameters are:

• An introduction to relevant ethical concepts
• A miniature textbook in microbiology
• An exposition on the limits of science
• An integrated discussion of ethics and biology on the central issues of the currant research

Genetic Engineering: Science and Ethics on the New Frontier is the fifth book in the series, Basic Ethics in Action (a major new undertaking by Prentice Hall covering: Social and Political Philosophy. Medical Ethics, Business Ethics, and Environmental Ethics.)

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• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130910856
• ISBN 13: 9780130910851
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196