Genes And Future People: Philosophical Issues In Human Genetics
Author:   Walter Glannon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9780813365602


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   03 December 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Walter Glannon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Westview Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780813365602


ISBN 10:   0813365600
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   03 December 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Introduction -- The Reach of Genes: Biology, Metaphysics, Morality -- Genetic Information, Obligation, and the Prevention of Lives -- Gene Therapy and Genetic Enhancement -- The Morality of Human Cloning -- Extending the Human Life Span

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Walter Glannon received a BA from Duke University, a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University. He has been a Killam Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association, and a Fellow at the MacLean centre for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago. He is Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and Clinical Ethicist at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal.

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