Biology and Ethics

<p><em>Biology and Ethics</em> provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism eugenics and sociobiology it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan's Unit 731 the Guatemala Syphilis study and others. In spite of the much disputed claims of evolutionary psychology it appears that the key to establishing ethical institutions and societies lies in the realm of public information.</p>