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Is Human Nature Obsolete? : Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition.

An interdisciplinary exploration of whether modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baillie, Harold W., 1950- (Editor ), Casey, Timothy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: MIT Press 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- Introduction -- I -- Historical Perspectives -- 2 -- Nature, Technology, and the Emergence of Cybernetic Humanity -- 3 -- Nature and Human Nature -- 4 -- Life Sciences: Discontents and Consolations -- 5 -- Genetic Engineering and Eugenics: The Uses of History -- II -- Embodiment and Self-Identity -- 6 -- The Body and the Quest for Control -- 7 -- Visions and Re-visions: Life and the Accident of Birth -- 8 -- Aristotle and Genetic Engineering: The Uncertainty of Excellence -- III -- Freedom and Telos -- 9 -- Human Recency and Race: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz -- 10 -- Human Nature in a PostHuman Genome Project World -- 11 -- Telos, Value, and Genetic Engineering -- IV -- Social and Political Critiques -- 12 -- Nature, Sin, and Society -- 13 -- Human Genetic Intervention: Past, Present, and Future -- 14 -- Resistance Is Futile: The Posthuman Condition and Its Advocates -- Contributors -- Index. 
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