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Changing nature's course : the ethical challenge of biotechnology
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- Creator
- edited by Gerhold K. Becker in association with James P. Buchanan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789622094031, 9622094031
- OCLC
- ocm35078275
- Articles out of the symposium "Biotechnology and Ethics: Scientific Liberty and Moral Responsibility" held in November of 1993; organized and sponsored by the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University in cooperation with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Goethe Institut.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Biotechnology--the new ethical frontier: an introduction / Gerhold K. Becker -- Production, use and biosafety of genetically engineering resistance to plant virus diseases / Po Tien -- Some environmental and ethical considerations of genetically engineered plants and foods / Philip L. Bereano -- Sacrificed for science: are animal experiments morally defensible? / Raymond Wacks -- Clinical and ethical challenges of genetic markers for severe human hereditary disorders / Rita Kielstein -- Ethical considerations arising from economic aspects of human genetics / Edward S. Golub -- Technology assessment, ethics and public policy in biotechnology: the case of the Human Genome Project / Joel Zimbelman -- The Conflict between the advancement of medical science and technology and traditional Chinese medical ethics / Da-pu Shi and Lin Yu -- In vitro fertilization and embryo transfer: technological achievements and ethical concerns / Kazumasa Hoshino -- Moral risk assessment in biotechnology / Hans-Martin Sass -- Anthropology as the basis of bioethics / Reinhard Löw -- Reflections on method in theology and genetics: from suspicion to critical cooperation / Anthony O. Dyson -- Bioethics and genetics in Asia and the Pacific: is universal bioethics possible? / Darryl Macer -- Future-perfect? Biotechnology and the ethics of the unknown: an afterword / James P. Buchanan