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Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity [electronic resource] : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.

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San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=352843D0-A2B3-45E0-8D7D-6E3028D1CC98 This title is available online; click here to access

1594030391 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

9781594030390 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

313 p. ; 24 cm.

Nature and purposes of technology and ethics -- The problem of technology and liberal democracy -- Practicing ethics -- Ethical challenges from biotechnology -- Life and lineage: genetics and the beginning of life -- The meaning of life in the laboratory -- The age of genetic technology arrives -- Cloning and the posthuman future -- Body and soul : parts and whole in the midst of life -- Organs for sale? : propriety, property and the price of progress -- Death and immortality : staying human at the end of life -- Is there a right to die? -- Death with dignity and the sanctity of life -- L'Chaim and its limits : why not immortality? -- Nature and purposes of biology -- The permanent limitations of biology.

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