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Promethean ambitions : alchemy and the quest to perfect nature /
In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226577135 0226577139 |