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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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MIT Press
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.