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The Ethical Canary Science, Society and the Human Spirit
by Somerville, Margaret A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670893021
- ISBN 13
- 9780670893027
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Viking Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670893021 . About new looking book with front endpaper stretched in the binding; in lightly rubbed DJ. ; 326 pages; 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 a rate that the issue is not so much what we can do but rather whether we will do it. According to Margaret Somerville, a leading international authority on medicine, ethics and the law, society must set ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances. In this controversial, timely and much-anticipated book, Professor Somerville sheds light on the urgent ethical and legal questions that vie for our attention. Along the way, she calls upon us to recognize the mysteries that lie at the heart of our lives and the metaphysical reality that gives meaning to life. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22854
- Title
- The Ethical Canary Science, Society and the Human Spirit
- Author
- Somerville, Margaret A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670893021
- ISBN 13
- 9780670893027
- Publisher
- Viking Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 0670893021, Medical Ethics, Physician & Patient, Medicine, Books, Medical Ethics, Medicine, Medical, Professional & Technical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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