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Science, animals, and evolution : reflections on some unrealized potentials of biology and medicine /

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Main Author: Roberts, Catherine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980.
Series:Contributions in philosophy ; no. 14,
Subjects:
Biology.
Humanism.
Philosophy, Medical.
Science.
Table of Contents:
  • Two kinds of humanism and the good
  • Good, evil, and ethical confusion
  • Space travel and faith
  • Pharmacology and the numinous
  • Life, death, and medical science
  • Organ transplantation and the brain-death criterion
  • Humanism in the churches
  • The revolt of the philosophers
  • A new approach to animal experimentation
  • A debate with an animal experimenter
  • Defenders of established science
  • Scientific discontent
  • A scientific heretic
  • The spiritualization of biology as an evolutionary imperative
  • Potentiality and the human-divine relation
  • Potentiality and the human-animal relation