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Description of  Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet

1800648499 epub In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that the role of the philosopher in scientific research is ethically necessary, and that it can also improve the quality and coherence of the research itself, ensuring that concepts employed, be it genes or autism or development, are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. She argues that chance and uncertainty play a central role in bioethics, and we must therefore focus as much on what we know as on what we create: in describing organisms and practices we make the world. As such, this is necessarily an ethical activity. Read more