| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Social ethics and policy
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Social ethics and policy series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction; MODERN ERRORS, ANCIENT VIRTUES; BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE; THE FRUITS OF BODY-BUILDERS' LABOUR; THE MORAL STATUS OF EXTRACORPOREAL EMBRYOS Pre-born children, property or something else?; IVF AND MANIPULATING THE HUMAN EMBRYO; MANIPULATION OF THE GERM-LINE Towards elimination of major infectious diseases?; HOW TO ASSESS THE CONSEQUENCES OF GENETIC ENGINEERING?; WHO OWNS MO? Using historical entitlement theory to decide the ownership of human derived cell lines. |
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WHAT 'BUGS' GENETIC ENGINEERS ABOUT BIOETHICS The consequences of genetic engineering as post-modern technologyCATEGORICAL OBJECTIONS TO GENETIC ENGINEERING; A CRITIQUE; BIOTECHNOLOGY, FRIEND OR FOE? ETHICS AND CONTROLS; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ETHICS IN GERMANY; GENETIC ENGINEERING IN THEOLOGY AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICS; Index. |
| Summary |
The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new life forms. This power to shape and create forms of life has sometimes been described as the power to ""play God"" and this book is about the ethics of ""playing God"" in the field of biotechnology. International scholars cover moral dilemmas posed by biotechnology, from the smallest cells through animals to the engineering of human beings. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Ethics, Medical. |
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Biotechnology. |
| Indexed Term |
Biotechnology Ethics |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dyson, Anthony Oakley.
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Harris, John, 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ethics and biotechnology. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994 0415091403 (DLC) 93015482 (OCoLC)27938079 |
| ISBN |
0203015444 (electronic book) |
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9780203015445 (electronic book) |
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0415091403 (Cloth) |
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