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Is human nature obsolete? : genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the human condition /
As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advance...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Basic bioethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nature, technology, and the emergence of cybernetic humanity / Timothy K. Casey
- Nature and human nature / Mark Sagoff
- Life sciences : discontents and consolations / Paul Rabinow
- Genetic engineering and eugenics : the uses of history / Diane B. Paul
- The body and the quest for control / Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Visions and re-visions : life and the accident of birth / Richard M. Zaner
- Aristotle and genetic engineering : the uncertainty of excellence / Harold W. Baillie
- Human recency and race : molecular anthropology, the refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO response to Auschwitz / Robert N. Proctor
- Human nature in a post-human genome project world / Thomas A. Shannon
- Telos, value, and genetic engineering Bernard E. Rollin
- Nature, sin, and society / Lisa Sowle Cahill
- Human genetic intervention : past, present, and future / LeRoy Walters
- Resistance is futile : the posthuman condition and its advocates / Langdon Winner.