Inmaculada de Melo-Martín

Taking Biology Seriously (eBook, ePUB)

What Biology Can and Cannot Tell Us About Moral and Public Policy Issues

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discussions of human biology and its consequences for ethics and public policy are often misguided. Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. Taking Biology Seriously calls attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public policies play a role.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461711506
• Artikelnr.: 39912247

Autorenporträt

By De Inmaculada Melo-Martín

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Misunderstanding Biology: Epistemological, Scientific, and Moral
Problems
Chapter 2 Biological Explanations and Social Responsibility
Chapter 3 An Introduction to the Science of Cloning
Chapter 4 Cloning-or not-Human Beings
Chapter 5 Putting Human Cloning Where It belongs
Chapter 6 Obtaining Genetic Information
Chapter 7 Genetic Information and Moral Obligation
Chapter 8 Moral Obligations, Genetic Information, and Social Context
Chapter 9 On the Need to Take Biology Seriously
Part 22 Genetic Information and Moral Obligations