The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement - Tapa dura

Rothman, Sheila M.; Rothman, David J.

 
9780679439806: The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement
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ISBN 10: 0679439803 ISBN 13: 9780679439806
Editorial: Pantheon Books, 2003

Sinopsis

Explores the risks and benefits of the pursuit of biological perfection through the use of drugs, hormones, and other procedures, discussing the costs--both financial and otherwise--when dissatisfaction with one's body leads to the search for a medical enhancement or "cure." 22,500 first printing.

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Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. Her books include <b>Living in the Shadow of Death</b>. Her articles in the<i> New York Review of Books</i> and other periodicals, often cowritten with David Rothman, address human rights and medicine. She is now investigating the social and ethical implications of linking race and ethnicity to genetic disease.<br><br>David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at Columbia University. His books have explored the history of prisons and mental hospitals and the impact of bioethics and law on medicine. He has just been named president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, funded by George Soros.

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Editorial
Pantheon Books
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679439803
ISBN 13 
9780679439806
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
292
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible

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9780679758358: The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enchancement (Vintage)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0679758356 ISBN 13:  9780679758358
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004
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