Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity
The Challenge for Bioethics
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- Paperback
297 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2004
Summary
At the onset of “Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity,” Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: “Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic ‘enhancement,’ for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills, while on the street their evangelists are zealously prophesying a posthuman future. For anyone who cares …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781594030475 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1594030472 |
| Author: | Leon Kass |
| Publisher: | Encounter Books,USA |
| Imprint: | Encounter Books,USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 297 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 173mm x 225mm |
| Series: | Encounter Broadsides |
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Critics Review
“Given Kass’s capacity to influence public policy, we should want to inquire into his reasoning, and “Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity helps us do so.”
Leon Kass
Leon R. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor (on leave) in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Insti-tute. Currently Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, he is the author of three books, most recently “Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, ” and coauthor of two more. He lives in Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
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