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Demonstrates that society must set ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances Every day we hear news about medical or scientific breakthroughs and the complex ethical issues they raise. Feats that were never before possible, including cloning, genetically modifying food, mapping human chromosomes, and using animal organs for human transplants, have opened up a Pandora's Box of ethical questions. Technology is advancing at such rate that the issue is not so much what we can do but rather whether we will do it. Margaret Somerville, a leading international authority on medicine, ethics, and the law, demonstrates that society must set ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances. In this controversial and timely book Somerville sheds light on the urgent ethical and legal questions that vie for our attention.

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A crucial book at a critical time - essential reading for anyone attempting to make sense of the rapidly changing world around them. Quill & Quire The Ethical Canary ... throws welcome light on a debate that we can't avoid. MacLean's Dr Somerville tackles the big ethical issues of today in a compelling book ... [and] handles [them] with considerable aplomb and an impressive sense of authority. West Australian Somerville is passionately engaged with the issues she discusses ... Whether we agree with her reasoning or not, we are likely to be moved by this lively text. Hospital Quarterly

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Margaret Somerville, who was recently chosen as the first winner of the Avicenna prize for Ethics in Science by UNESCO, is the founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, and holds professorships in both the Faculty of Law and the the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. She is the author of Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.

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