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

Kass, Leon

ISBN 10: 1893554554 / ISBN 13: 9781893554559

Published by Encounter Books, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893554554
• ISBN 13: 9781893554559
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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.

About the Author

Leon R. Kass is a Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. Among his books are "Toward a more natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs;" The Hungry Soul;" The Ethics of Human Cloning (with James Q. Wilson);" and "Wing to wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying" (with Amy A. Kass). In 2001, President Bush Appointed Dr. Kass to chair the new President s Council on Bioethics.