Altering nature /

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Imprint:[United States] : Springer, 2008.
Description:2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Philosophy and Medicine, founding co-editor: Stuart F. Spicker, 97-98
Philosophy and medicine ; 97-98.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7300559
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Other authors / contributors:Lustig, B. Andrew.
Brody, Baruch A.
McKenny, Gerald P.
ISBN:9781402069208 (v.1)
1402069200 (v.1)
9781402069222 (v.2)
1402069227 (v.2)
9781402069239 (v.2)
1402069235 (v.2)
Notes:Includes bibliographic references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Spiritual and Religious Concepts of Nature
  • 2. Philosophical Approaches to Nature
  • 3. Scientific and Medical Concepts of Nature in the Modern Period in Europe and North America
  • 4. Ethical Challenges of Patenting "Nature": Legal and Economic Accounts of Altered Nature as Property
  • 5. Technogenesis: Aesthetic Dimensions of Art and Biotechnology
  • Index