Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs

by Leon R. Kass

Book Overview

The promise and the peril of our are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. On the one hand, the spread of knowledge has overcome superstition and reduce fear born of ignorance, and the application of science through technology has made life less poor, nasty, brutish and short.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029183405
• ISBN13: 9780029183403
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fundamental book for anyone interested in bioethics

Kass asks the fundamental question "do we wish to live longer in order to live better, or do we wish to live better in order to live longer?" By going through the roots of medicine and the hippocratic oath, Kass shows what the healing arts are meant to be, and he exposes what the curing industry is rapidly becoming. Kass also takes an indepth look at science itself as it relates to research, ethics and the most basic levels of the human condition.