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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.957
• Soggetto topico: Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects; Philosophical anthropology
• Altri autori: BaillieHarold W. <1950-> CaseyTimothy
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Is human nature obsolete
• ISBN: 0-262-30821-5; 1-282-09971-X; 9786612099717; 0-262-26757-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828656703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Basic bioethics.