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

Is human nature obsolete? : genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the human condition / edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey.

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...

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Other Authors: Baillie, Harold W., 1950-, Casey, Timothy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series:Basic bioethics.
Subjects:
Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Forecasting.
Medicine > Philosophy.
philosophical anthropology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Medicine > Philosophy
Forecasting
Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophical anthropology
Electronic books.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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