Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity is largely a collection of previously published.
In this book the Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics,.
Leon Kass, sorts out the ehtics of new biotechnological breakthroughs and explains how.
biotechnology is starting to threaten our human dignity. According to Kass biotechnology has allowed many of us to live longer and healthier lives, but at the same time some have threatened to technologically alter our humanity.
In this book all Kass assesses all of the major issues in biotechnology, such as: cloning and stem cell research, in vitro fertilization and organ transplantation, euthansia and end of life decisions, and many other recent developments. Kass also discusses some of the questions biotechnology faces, such as: What is the moral status of the human embryo? Should there be limits to where we are heading in biology?.
Kass begins his book with a reflection on "the problem of technology and liberal democracy." The two are somewhat linked together. While technological progress assumes the kind of intellectual and economic freedom that liberal democracy ensures, liberal societies must rely on technology for assistance. We look towards technology for healthy foods, everyday electronics, and right now improved military technologies. Although technological progress has its benefits, it also has its consequences. As Kass shows, the greatest problem posed by today's "brace new biology" doesn't come from the technologies it produces, but rather from the scientific view from which it is derived. Kass say, " the benevolent uses of humanitarian technologies often have serious unintended and undesired consequences." .
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According to Leon R. Kass, M.D., the taboo against doctors killing patients, even on request, "is the very embodiment of reason and wisdom. ... New England Journal of Medicine, January 2, 1997 http://www.facts.com/icof/i00057.html(10 Nov. 2000) Kass MD, Leon. ...
One such argument made by Leon L. Kass claims that cloning will lead to an eventual deficiency of our social and cultural institutions, that we will lose a normal understanding of what father, mother, sibling and grandparent are. ... While I can appreciate Kass's concern for the clone, I do not think that this argument is as strong as conceived. ... The clone will be a delayed twin of either parent but it will be raised as a son or daughter, which will only perpetuate a normal understanding of our social and cultural institutions as Kass describes them. I think that Kass exaggerates that ...
Over the years the world has been able to achieve many technological advances; however, not all of them have been proved to be ethically correct. The fabrication of a living, breathing human being, in my opinion, is morally and ethically wrong. The prospect of mass production of human beings, com...
Leon R. Kass who describes a "good death" as an admirable death makes it very clear in his article that he is against active euthanasia, and that no doctor should have the power to kill. ... Catherine's death would also be described as a "bad death" when looking at this case through the eyes of Leon Kass because for him a "good death" is when "people who, know that they are dying, face the fact frontally and act accordingly: they set their affairs in order, they arrange what could be final meetings with loved ones, and yet, with strength of soul and a small reservoir of hope, they contin...
Leon Kass an eminent University of Chicago Bioethicist makes his views against human cloning well known. Kass, was picked by President Bush to head an advisory panel on stem cell research. ... Kass gave testimony on his opinions of human cloning in front of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Kass started his testimony by saying that he supported the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 for two reasons. The first reason given by Kass was that human cloning was unethical, both in itself as well as to what it could lead to. ...
Leon Kass an eminent University of Chicago Bioethicist makes his views against human cloning well known. Kass this past year was picked by President Bush to head an advisory panel on stem cell research. ... Kass gave testimony on his opinions of human cloning in front of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Kass started his testimony by saying that he supported the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 for two reasons. The first reason given by Kass was that human cloning was unethical, both in itself as well as to what it could lead to. ...
The president of the United States, George Bush, held a press conference concerning the legal, moral, and ethical issues on stem cell research in general. The press conference was held on august 9, 2001 at the Bush ranch in Crawford,Texas. In the beginning of the press conference President Bush ta...
On February 22, 1996, Ian Wilmut brought cloning of animals to our attention, when the first animal was successfully cloned, on that history-making day the cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Wilmut took a cell from the udder of a six-year -old ewe and sparked a jolt of electricity to fuse it to the...
On February 22, 1996, Ian Wilmut brought cloning of animals to our attention, when the first animal was successfully cloned, on that history-making day the cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Wilmut took a cell from the udder of a six-year -old ewe and sparked a jolt of electricity to fuse it to the ...
