Toward a More Natural ScienceThe relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal screening, in vitro fertilization, artificial life forms, and medical care, and discusses the role of human beings in nature. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The New Biology and the Old Morality | 22 |
Prenatal Diagnosis and the Equal | 45 |
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abortion activity Adolf Portmann amniocentesis animal artificial insemination aspiration baby beautiful biological biomedical blastocyst blush bodily body cause Chapter child concern consider culture Darwin death decision desire dignity dilemmas disease doctor ectogenesis embodied embryo transfer especially evolution face fact fetus function gene goal Hans Jonas healing higher Hippocratic Oath human embryos illness important individual infertility knowledge laboratory least less living things look matter means medical ethics medicine mind modern moral natural selection notions one's organism Origin of Species ourselves patient perhaps physician Portmann possible practice Prenatal Diagnosis present preserve principle problem profession purpose question reason regarding relation respect scientific seek sense serve sexual shame sick simply social soul speak survival teach techniques technologies teleological teleological character thought tion treatment true truth understanding upright posture virtue vitro fertilization whole wisdom