Description
Book SynopsisThe biological revolution, with its attendant technological powers to alter nature and human nature, demands fundamental and cautionary reflection on questions of the highest ethical importance. This book explores nine topics ranging from birth and adolescence to aging and death.
Table of Contents1. Designer Babies, Selective Abortion, and Human Perfection 2. The Moral Meaning of Relinquishing an Infant: Reflections on Adoption 3. Adolescents in Time of AIDS 4. Psychiatry and the Challenge of Religious Toleration 5. American Culture and Good Death 6. The Covenant of Basic Caring 7. Old-Age-Based Rationing, Dementia, and Quality of Life 8. The Legacy of Racial Hygiene: Death and Data 9. The Emergence of Species Impartiality: A Medical Critique of Biocentrism
