About AEI My AEI Support AEI Contact AEI
Home Events Books Short Publications Research Areas Scholars & Fellows


Search


FindAdvanced Search

Browse all books by:
- Date
- Subject
- Author
- Title

BOOKS
About the AEI Press
Orders and Shipping
Book Reviews
Press Releases

AEI Classics

AEI is rereleasing some of its most prescient and groundbreaking works from its earliest thinkers and innovators. These books, part of a series called AEI Classics, are available for download as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

E-NEWSLETTERS
Enter e-mail:
 

Home >  Books >  Toward a More Natural Science
Toward a More Natural Science
Print Mail
Biology and Human Affairs
By Leon R. Kass, M.D.
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Toward a More Natural Science
Dimensions: 9.25'' x 6''
370 pages
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Publication Date: October 1990
Paperback
ISBN: 0029170710
Hardcover
ISBN: 0029183405

The promise and the peril of our are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. On the one hand, the spread of knowledge has overcome superstition and reduce fear born of ignorance, and the application of science through technology has made life less poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts of Human Biology, the College and the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. He has been a senior fellow at the National Institutes of Health ans erved as the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Research Professor in Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

Related Links
Order from Barnes and Noble
Health Policy Studies at AEI


Also by Leon R. Kass
Recent Articles
For the Love of the Game
Defending Life and Dignity
Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society
Latest Book
Reproduction and Responsibility
The Regulation of New Biotechnologies
Cuba the Morning After
Cuba the Morning After

What lies ahead for Cuba after Castro? Mark Falcoff writes that an economically unviable and otherwise dysfunctional Cuba could in coming years pose an even bigger threat to the United States than in its communist heyday.


Air Quality in America
Air Quality in America

This detailed, data-driven book rebuts mistaken perceptions that U.S. air quality is bad by documenting marked improvements over the past decades.


Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge- thumbnail
Europe's Coming Demographic Challenge

The promise of "healthy aging" offers significant opportunities for economic growth and development for Europe in the decades ahead--if governments and citizens are willing to grasp them.