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RECORD NUMBER: 680 OF 5587Main Title | Bioethics: bridge to the future. | |||||||||||
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Author | Potter, Van Rensselaer, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Prentice-Hall | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1971 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 00226527 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0130765058; 9780130765055; 9780130765130; 0130765139 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Bioethics ; Ecology ; Biology--Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; èOkologie ; Bioética ; Bioâetica | |||||||||||
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Collation | xvii, 205 pages illustrations 22 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents Notes | Bioethics, the science of survival -- Teilhard de Chardin and the concept of purpose -- Bridge to the future: the concept of human progress -- Society and science -- Dangerous knowledge: the dilemma of modern science -- Council on the future -- The role of disorder in human activity and thought -- The role of the individual in modern society -- Intracellular responses to environmental change: The quest for optimum environment -- How is an optimum environment defined? -- Science and biological man -- Biocybernetics--the key to environmental science -- Survival as a goal for wisdom. |