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Genethics

by David Heyd
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Overview

Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value.

About the Author, David Heyd

David Heyd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Supererogation

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Book Details

Published
October 27, 1994
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.
Pages
276
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780520089273

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