What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics Snead O. Carter
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics Snead O. Carter A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded…
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What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics Snead O. Carter
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded Reason Award "A brilliantly insightful book about how American law has enshrined individual autonomy as the highest moral good...Highly thought-provoking." --Francis Fukuyama, author of Identity "This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this entails." --Wall Street Journal "This remarkable and insightful account of contemporary public bioethics and its individualist assumptions is indispensable reading for anyone with bioethical concerns." --Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After VirtueThe natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent on others. Yet law