Is human nature obsolete? : genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the human condition /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Basic bioethics.
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Table of Contents:
- Nature, technology and the emergence of cybernetic humanity
- Nature and human nature
- Life sciences : discontents and consolations
- Genetic engineering and eugenics : the uses of history
- The body and the quest for control
- Visions and re-visions : life and the accident of birth
- Aristotle and genetic engineering : the uncertainty of excellence
- Human recency and race : molecular anthropology, the refigured acheulean, and the UNESCO response to Auschwitz
- Human nature in a post-human genome project world
- Telos, value and genetic engineering
- Nature, sin and society
- Human genetic intervention : past, present, and future
- Resistance is futile : the posthuman condition and its advocates