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Biomedicine and the human condition : challenges, risks, and rewards / Michael G. Sargent.

By: Sargent, Michael G, 1943-.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2005Description: xiii, 350 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0521541484 (pbk.).Subject(s): Health -- Philosophy | Medicine -- Philosophy | Bioethics -- Philosophy | Philosophy of mind | Philosophy, Modern | Philosophical anthropologyDDC classification: 610.1
Contents:
Preface. - 1. Challenge, risk and reward: learning to control our biological fate. - 2. Learning to breed successfully. - 3. How life is handled. - 4. Cells in sickness and health. - 5. Experiences in utero affect later life. - 6. Infection, nutrition and poisons: avoiding an unhealthy life. - 7. Signs of ageing: when renovation slows. - 8. Cancer and the body plan: a Darwinian struggle. - 9. Fighting infection. - 10. Are devastating epidemics still possible? - 11. Discovering medicines: infinite variety through chemistry. - 12. Protein medicines from gene technology. - 13. Refurbishing the body. - 14. Living with the genetic legacy. - 15. Epilogue: Signposts to "Wonderland". - Reference. - Index.
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Preface. - 1. Challenge, risk and reward: learning to control our biological fate. - 2. Learning to breed successfully. - 3. How life is handled. - 4. Cells in sickness and health. - 5. Experiences in utero affect later life. - 6. Infection, nutrition and poisons: avoiding an unhealthy life. - 7. Signs of ageing: when renovation slows. - 8. Cancer and the body plan: a Darwinian struggle. - 9. Fighting infection. - 10. Are devastating epidemics still possible? - 11. Discovering medicines: infinite variety through chemistry. - 12. Protein medicines from gene technology. - 13. Refurbishing the body. - 14. Living with the genetic legacy. - 15. Epilogue: Signposts to "Wonderland". - Reference. - Index.

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