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Taking Biology Seriously
What Biology Can and Cannot Tell Us About Moral and Public Policy Issues
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eBook - ePub
Taking Biology Seriously
What Biology Can and Cannot Tell Us About Moral and Public Policy Issues
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Misunderstanding Biology: Epistemological, Scientific, and Moral Problems
- 2 Biological Explanations and Social Responsibility
- 3 An Introduction to the Science of Cloning
- 4 Cloning—Or Not—Human Beings
- 5 Putting Human Cloning Where It Belongs
- 6 Obtaining Genetic Information
- 7 Genetic Information and Moral Obligations
- 8 Moral Obligations, Genetic Information, and Social Context
- 9 On the Need to Take Biology Seriously
- Bibliography
- About the Author
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