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Author Birch, Charles.

Title The liberation of life : from the cell to the community / Charles Birch, John B. Cobb, Jr
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Description ix, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary "This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements"--Publisher description
Analysis Environment
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [332]-343
Includes index
Subject Bioethics.
Biology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Biology -- Philosophy.
Ecology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Ecology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Ecology -- Philosophy.
Enviromental ethhics
Environmental ethics.
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
Human ecology.
Life.
Ecology.
Ethics.
Models, Biological.
Author Cobb, John B.
LC no. 80042156
ISBN 0521237874
052131514X (paperback)