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Biomedicine and the Human Condition :Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Biomedicine and the Human Condition :
Reminder of title:	Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.
Author:	Sargent, Michael G.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2005.
Description:	366 p.
Subject:	Health.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511546419 (electronic bk.)

Biomedicine and the Human Condition :Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.
Sargent, Michael G.

Biomedicine and the Human Condition :Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2005. - 366 p.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Challenges, Risks, and Rewards: Learning to Control Our Biological Fate; Leaving Eden; Challenges, Risks, and Rewards – Introducing a Theme; George Bernard Shaw’s Misgivings – Twentieth-Century Optimism; The Great Philanthropists; Investment in the New Biology; Questions from a Sceptical Public; Biomedicine Comes of Age; 2 Learning to Breed Successfully; “In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children”; Changing Reproductive Habits; Surviving Childhood; Birth Control; Assisting Reproduction

How to avoid disease, how to breed successfully, and how to live to a reasonable age are questions that have long perplexed humankind. This book explores our progress in understanding these challenges, and the risks and rewards of our attempts to find solutions.

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ISBN: 9780511546419 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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LC Class. No.: R723 .S223 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 610.9

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