Doubleday
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — March 2008
Embryo; a defense of human life.
George, Robert P. and Christopher Tollefsen.
Doubleday, ©2008 242 p. $23.95 QH588
978-0-385-52282-3
George (jurisprudence and American ideals and institutions, Princeton U.) is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, so readers who think that august body is benefiting the world may be interested to learn about the murk its house is built on. He and Tollefsen (philosophy, U. of South Carolina) clearly have no competence to discuss the biology of human development or the theology of life and death. That is just fine, however, because their argument is all about politics and power. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
