Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.
An essential introduction to a controversial yet crucial field of research, Biotechnology surveys recent advances in the field and offers a wide range of opinions for and against expanding this new branch of science. Incisively examining such key topics as therapeutic cloning, genetic enhancement, stem cell therapy, and the use of psychotropic drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin, contributors to this volume agree that biotechnology will inevitably change human life. However, they debate the right way to balance the potential to cure disease and relieve human suffering with the need to respect life and preserve human dignity. Several explore the way major religions-both Eastern and Western-treat the subject. Others analyze the role of government in biotechnology and specific applications of the technology that should be practiced. Serving as an introduction to this ethically complicated and significant scientific movement, the book ultimately raises the broader, fundamental question of the meaning of human flourishing.
| ISBN: | 9781438426860 |
| Publication date: | 9th July 2009 |
| Author: | Sean D Sutton |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology |
| Genres: |
Biotechnology Religious ethics Central / national / federal government policies |
Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.
An essential introduction to a controversial yet crucial field of research, Biotechnology surveys recent advances in the field and offers a wide range of opinions for and against expanding this new branch of science. Incisively examining such key topics as therapeutic cloning, genetic enhancement, stem cell therapy, and the use of psychotropic drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin, contributors to this volume agree that biotechnology will inevitably change human life. However, they debate the right way to balance the potential to cure disease and relieve human suffering with the need to respect life and preserve human dignity. Several explore the way major religions-both Eastern and Western-treat the subject. Others analyze the role of government in biotechnology and specific applications of the technology that should be practiced. Serving as an introduction to this ethically complicated and significant scientific movement, the book ultimately raises the broader, fundamental question of the meaning of human flourishing.
Biotechnology features in the following genres: Biotechnology, Religious ethics, Central / national / federal government policies
Biotechnology is available in Hardback, Paperback
Biotechnology was written by Sean D Sutton and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Biotechnology has 208 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology series