Is human nature obsolete? : genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the human condition /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baillie, Harold W., 1950-, Casey, Timothy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
Series:Basic bioethics.
Subjects:
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