ENGLISH

Ethics & Biotechnology

By John Harris , Anthony Dyson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
9780203015445, 9780415091404, 0203015444, 0415091403, 0203205669
LCC
TP248.2 .E85 1994
Open Library ID
OL1407106M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
794 kB (813168 bytes)
Series
Social Ethics and Policy
Edition
1
Pages
288\285
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

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.

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