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

SeriesBasic bioethics
Basic bioethics ^A459921
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.
General notePapers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004040298
ISBN9780262524285 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0262524287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780262025690 (alk. paper)
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