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Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Human Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics - Book Review
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Altering the face of humanity.
LIFE LIBERTY, AND THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN DIGNITY: THE CHALLENGE OF BIOETHICS. By LEON R. KASS. Encounter. 300 pp. $26.95.
LEON KASS HAS described himself as a strange man who writes strange and untimely books. Given the intellectual condition of the contemporary academy, this is by no means a bad thing. Trained professionally as a physician and biochemist, Kass has, without formal academic training, taught courses in philosophy and literature for the past twenty-eight years at the University of Chicago. A prolific essayist, he has published books on the proper relation of biology and human affairs, the connection between eating and the perfection of human nature, and the deepest meanings...See the full content of this document
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