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Demonstrates that society must set ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances
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"A crucial book at a critical time - essential reading for anyone attempting to make sense of the rapidly changing world around them." Quill & Quire "The Ethical Canary ... throws welcome light on a debate that we can't avoid." MacLean's "Dr Somerville tackles the big ethical issues of today in a compelling book ... [and] handles [them] with considerable aplomb and an impressive sense of authority." West Australian "Somerville is passionately engaged with the issues she discusses ... Whether we agree with her reasoning or not, we are likely to be moved by this lively text." Hospital Quarterly
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Margaret Somerville, who was recently chosen as the first winner of the Avicenna prize for Ethics in Science by UNESCO, is the founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, and holds professorships in both the Faculty of Law and the the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. She is the author of Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0670899712
- ISBN 13 9780670899715
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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