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UNINA9910777416503321 |
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Is human nature obsolete? [[electronic resource] ] : genetics bioengineering, and the future of the human condition / / edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-30821-5 |
1-282-09971-X |
9786612099717 |
0-262-26757-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BaillieHarold W. <1950-> |
CaseyTimothy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects |
Philosophical anthropology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 - Introduction; I - Historical Perspectives; 2 - Nature, Technology, and the Emergence of Cybernetic Humanity; 3 - Nature and Human Nature; 4 - Life Sciences: Discontents and Consolations; 5 - Genetic Engineering and Eugenics: The Uses of History; II - Embodiment and Self-Identity; 6 - The Body and the Quest for Control; 7 - Visions and Re-visions: Life and the Accident of Birth; 8 - Aristotle and Genetic Engineering: The Uncertainty of Excellence; III - Freedom and Telos |
9 - Human Recency and Race: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz10 - Human Nature in a Post-Human Genome Project World; 11 - Telos, Value, and Genetic Engineering; IV - Social and Political Critiques; 12 - Nature, Sin, and Society; 13 - Human Genetic Intervention: Past, Present, and Future; 14 - Resistance Is Futile: The Posthuman Condition and Its Advocates; Contributors; Index |
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