TY - BOOK AU - Kass,Leon TI - Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity: the challenge for bioethics SN - 1893554554 (alk. paper) AV - QH332 .K37 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - San Francisco PB - Encounter Books KW - Bioethics KW - Bio�ethique N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-305) and index; Nature and purposes of technology and ethics -- The problem of technology and liberal democracy -- Practicing ethics -- Ethical challenges from biotechnology -- Life and lineage: genetics and the beginning of life -- The meaning of life in the laboratory -- The age of genetic technology arrives -- Cloning and the posthuman future -- Body and soul : parts and whole in the midst of life -- Organs for sale? : propriety, property and the price of progress -- Death and immortality : staying human at the end of life -- Is there a right to die? -- Death with dignity and the sanctity of life -- L'Chaim and its limits : why not immortality? -- Nature and purposes of biology -- The permanent limitations of biology UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy038/2002074225.html ER -