Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs - Softcover

Kass, Leon R.

 
9780029170717: Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0029170710 ISBN 13: 9780029170717
Verlag: Free Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal screening, in vitro fertilization, artificial life forms, and medical care, and discusses the role of human beings in nature.

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Leon R. Kass, M.D., is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts of Human Biology, the College and the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. He has been a Senior Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and served as the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Research Professor in Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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The promise and the peril of our are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. On the one hand, the spread of knowledge has overcome superstition and reduce fear born of ignorance, and the application of science through technology has made life less poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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Verlag
Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0029170710
ISBN 13 
9780029170717
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
388
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