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Changing nature's course : the ethical challenge of biotechnology
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Changing nature's course : the ethical challenge of biotechnology

Author: Gerhold K Becker; James Porter Buchanan
Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:  Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gerhold K Becker; James Porter Buchanan
ISBN: 9622094031 9789622094031
OCLC Number: 35078275
Notes: 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.
Description: x, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: edited by Gerhold K. Becker in association with James P. Buchanan.

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