Altering nature /
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Imprint: | [United States] : Springer, 2008. |
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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 |
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