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Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
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by President's Council on Bioethics
Sales Rank : 649858
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Dana Press December 4, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932594051
ISBN-13: 978-1932594058
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
This clear, concise, and groundbreaking report examines the reach, and potential, of biotechnology in every aspect of our daily life. Healthy children, superior physical performance, age longevity, overall happiness—our desires and the emerging means to fulfill them raise a host of ethical challenges. Accompanied by a foreword by Leon R. Kass, an introduction by renowned columnist William Safire, and additional comments from member scientists on the President's Council on Bioethics, this report considers those possibilities in all their breadth and complexity.
“Most government reports . . . are guaranteed to put you to sleep at night. This one will keep you awake.”—Alan Murray, Wall Street Journal
“Draws attention to the power of commercial enterprise to shape people’s desires.”—Nicolas Wade, New York Times
About The Author
Leon R. Kass, M.D., P.h.D., is chairman of the Presidents Council on Bioethics. He is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. Also the author of Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs, The Ethics of Human Cloning (with James Q. Wilson), and Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, he lives with his wife, Amy Apfel Kass, in TK.
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