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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.

Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics

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Hardback by Leon Kass

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    Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
    Publication Date: 14/11/2002
    ISBN13: 9781893554559, 978-1893554559
    ISBN10: 1893554554

    Number of Pages: 297

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    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.

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