Biotechnology and the human good / C. Ben Mitchell ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, C. Ben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Biotechnology.

Medical ethics.

Values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences, at once predicted and unpredictable, beneficial and hazardous. Outcry over recent developments in the reproductive and genetic sciences has revealed deep fissures in society's perception of biotechnical progress. Many are concerned that reckless technological development, driven by consumerist im

Contents:

The rapidly changing world of biotechnology

Humanity and the technological narrative

Biotechnology and competing worldviews

Biotechnology and human dignity

Biotechnology and the quest for control

Biotechnology, human enhancement, and the ends of medicine.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589012769

1589012763

9781435627383

1435627385

OCLC:

646788664