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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777416503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005

ISBN

0-262-30821-5

1-282-09971-X

9786612099717

0-262-26757-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Basic bioethics

Altri autori (Persone)

BaillieHarold W. <1950->

CaseyTimothy

Disciplina

174/.957

Soggetti

Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects

Philosophical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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