The Ethics of Life

by Denis Noble (Editor), UNESCO

Scientists, philosophers, jurists and theologians offer contributions on the foundations of bioethics, attitudes towards animal testing, legal aspects of experimentation on the living, human embryo research and the moral implications of biological research into sexual orientation. Publie egalement en franais: L'ethique du vivant

238 pages, Paperback

First published May 18, 1997

About the author

Denis Noble is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology. He now directs the computational physiology research group. He was the first to model cardiac cells (in two papers in Nature in 1960) and has published over 350 research papers. He is one of the leaders of Systems Biology and has written the first popular book on Systems Biology, The MUSIC of LIFE (OUP, 2006).