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WHOSE VIEW OF LIFE?

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內容簡介 Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research--a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Jane Maienschein seeks to counter with this book. Whose View of Life? brings the current debates into sharper focus by examining developments in stem cell research, cloning, and embryology in historical and philosophical context and by exploring legal, social, and ethical issues at the heart of what has become a political controversy. Drawing on her experience as a researcher, teacher, and congressional fellow, Jane Maienschein provides historical and contemporary analysis to aid understanding of the scientific and social forces that got us where we are today. For example, she explains the long-established traditions behind conflicting views of how life begins--at conception or gradually, in the course of development. She prepares us to engage a major question of our day: How are we, as a 21st-century democratic society, to navigate a course that is at the same time respectful of the range of competing views of life, built on the strongest possible basis of scientific knowledge, and still able to respond to the momentous opportunities and challenges presented to us by modern biology? Maienschein's multidisciplinary perspective will provide a starting point for further attempts to answer this question. Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research�a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Maienschein seeks to counter with this book.

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各界推薦 【94年9月好讀推薦】生命科學的進展神速，但也為倫理學的亙古課題，提出迫切而嚴峻的挑戰：到底人是什麼？生命是什麼？亞利桑納州立大學生物學與社會中心主任、曾任美國國會科技顧問的Jane Maienschein審視從亞里斯多德以降的哲學、神學、社會學觀點，在胚胎與幹細胞研究、複製技術日新月異且高度商業化的今天，提出觀察、諍言與建言，試圖摸索科學與道德的界限何在。

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