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After the genome : a language for our biotechnological future /

Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate this biotechnological frontier demand a language that will describe our new future and discuss...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hyde, Michael J., 1950- (Editor ), Herrick, James A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2013]
Colección:Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Faith in science : professional and public discourse on regenerative medicine / Tristan Keys, Nancy M.P. King, and Anthony Atala
  • From Arrowsmith to Atwood : how did we come to disrespect science? / Ronald M. Green
  • The "warfare" of science and religion and science's ethical profile / Thomas M. Lessl
  • Is there a human nature? : an argument against modern excarnation / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Crossing frontiers of science : trespassing into a godless space, or, Fulfilling our manifest destiny / Leah Ceccarelli
  • The angels and devils of representing Prozac / Tod Chambers
  • "Leave your medicine outside" : bioethics, spirituality, and the rhetoric of Appalachian serpent handlers / Bill J. Leonard
  • Biovaluable stories and a narrative ethics of reconfigurable bodies / Arthur W. Frank
  • Blacks and the language of their biotechnological future / Ezra E.H. Griffith
  • Bioethics, economism, and the rhetoric of technological innovation / Howard Brody
  • Technologies of the self at the end of life : pastoral power and the rhetoric of advance care planning / Lisa Kernen
  • Suffering and the rhetoric of care / Judy Segal.