Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (p.[301]-305) and index. Nature and purposes of technology and ethics -- Ch. 1 The problem of technology and liberal democracy -- Ch. 2 Practicing ethics: where's the action? -- Ethical challenges from biotechnology -- Life and lineage: genetics and the beginning of life -- Ch. 3 The meaning of life in the laboratory -- Ch.4 The age of genetic technology arrives -- Ch. 5 Cloning and the posthuman future -- Body and soul: parts and wholes in the midst of life -- Ch. 6 Organs for sale? propriety, property and price of progress -- Death and immortality: staying human at the end of life -- Ch. 7 Is there a right to die? -- Ch. 8 Death with dignity and the sanctity of life -- Ch. 9 L'Chaim and its limits: why not immortality? -- Nature and purposes of biology -- Ch. 10 The permanent limitations of biology.