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Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Encounter Books
ISBN-10
1893554554
ISBN-13
9781893554559
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2240925
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
297 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Life Liberty and the Defense of Dignity : the Challenge for Bioethics
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Ethics, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-074225
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
174.2
Synopsis
We are walking too quickly down the road to physical and psychological utopia without pausing to assess the potential damage to our humanity from this brave new biology., In a series of meditations on cloning, embryo research, the human genome project, the sale of organs, and the assault on mortality itself, Kass evaluates the ongoing effort to break down the natural boundaries given us and to remake the human body into an instrument of our will. What does it mean to treat nascent human life as raw material to be exploited? What does it mean to blur the line between procreation and manufacture? What are the proper limits to this project for the remaking of human nature? These are the questions we should be asking to prevent runaway scientism with its utopian longings from reshaping humankind in the image of our own choosing. Kass believes that technology has done and will continue to do wonders for our health and longevity and that we have much to be thankful for. But there is more at stake in the biological revolution that saving life and avoiding death. We must also strive to protect the ideas and practices that give us dignity and keep us human. The book challenges us to confront the post-human future that may await us by thinking deeply about the life and death issues we face today., 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.
LC Classification Number
QH332.K37 2002
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