Biotechnology and the Human Good

by John F. Kilner, Scott B. Rae, Jean Bethke Elshtain, et al.

Book Overview

Some of humankind's greatest tools have been forged in the research laboratory. Who could argue that medical advances like antibiotics, blood transfusions, and pacemakers have not improved the quality of people's lives? But with each new technological breakthrough there comes an array of consequences, at once predicted and unpredictable, beneficial and hazardous.

Outcry over recent developments in the reproductive and genetic sciences has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589011384
• ISBN13: 9781589011380
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher