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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813432203321

Titolo

After the genome : a language for our biotechnological future / / Michael J. Hyde and James A. Herrick, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, TX, : Baylor University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-40578-9

1-60258-687-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

HerrickJames A

HydeMichael J. <1950->

Disciplina

174.2

Soggetti

Bioethics - Philosophy

Biotechnology - Moral and ethical aspects

Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Faith in science : professional and public discourse on regenerative medicine / Tristan Keys, Nancy M. P. King, and Anthony Atala -- From Arrowsmith to Atwood : how did we come to disrespect science? / Ronald M. Green -- The "warfare" of science and religion and science's ethical profile / Thomas M. Lessl -- Is there a human nature? : an argument against modern excarnation / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Crossing frontiers of science : trespassing into a godless space, or, Fulfilling our manifest destiny / Leah Ceccarelli -- The angels and devils of representing Prozac / Tod Chambers -- "Leave your medicine outside" : bioethics, spirituality, and the rhetoric of Appalachian serpent handlers / Bill J. Leonard -- Biovaluable stories and a narrative ethics of reconfigurable bodies / Arthur W. Frank -- Blacks and the language of their biotechnological future / Ezra E. H. Griffith -- Bioethics, economism, and the rhetoric of technological innovation / Howard Brody -- Technologies of the self at the end of life : pastoral power and the rhetoric of advance care planning / Lisa Kernen -- Suffering and the rhetoric of care / Judy Segal.

Sommario/riassunto

Science, rhetoric, and speaking about the post-human future