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Toward a more natural science : biology and human affairs / Leon R. Kass
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Edité par Free Press - 1988
Part 1. Eroding the limits: troubles with the mastery of nature. The new biology: what price relieving man's estate?. Making babies: the new biology and the "old" morality. Perfect babies: prenatal diagnosis and the equal right to life. The meaning of life, in the laboratory. Patenting life: science, politics, and the limits of mastering nature. Part 2. Holding the center: the morality of medicine. The end of medicine and the pursuit of health. Practicing prudently: ethical dilemmas in caring for the ill. Professing medially: the place of ethics in defining medicine. Is there a medical ethic?: the Hippocratic Oath and the sources of ethical medicine. Part 3. Deepening the ground: nature reconsidered. Teleology, Darwinism, and the place of man: beyond chance and necessity?. Thinging about the body. Mortality and morality: the virtues of finitude. Looking good: nature and nobility. Epilogue: from nature to ethics.
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