Title: Life, Liberty, and 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: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.41 pounds

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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.

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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.

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