02716nam 22005654a 450 991082865670332120240416212018.00-262-30821-51-282-09971-X97866120997170-262-26757-8(CKB)1000000000451969(EBL)3338810(MiAaPQ)EBC3338810(Au-PeEL)EBL3338810(CaPaEBR)ebr10225264(OCoLC)741343338(EXLCZ)99100000000045196920040325d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIs human nature obsolete? genetics bioengineering, and the future of the human condition /edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. MIT Pressc20051 online resource (433 p.)Basic bioethicsPapers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.0-262-52428-7 0-262-02569-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Telos9 - 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; IndexBasic bioethics.Genetic engineeringMoral and ethical aspectsPhilosophical anthropologyGenetic engineeringMoral and ethical aspects.Philosophical anthropology.174/.957Baillie Harold W.1950-1637165Casey Timothy1637166MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828656703321Is human nature obsolete3978844UNINA