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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina | 174/.957 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BaillieHarold W. <1950->
CaseyTimothy |
Collana | Basic bioethics |
Soggetto topico |
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophical anthropology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-262-30821-5
1-282-09971-X 9786612099717 0-262-26757-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452023003321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina | 174/.957 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BaillieHarold W. <1950->
CaseyTimothy |
Collana | Basic bioethics |
Soggetto topico |
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophical anthropology |
ISBN |
0-262-30821-5
1-282-09971-X 9786612099717 0-262-26757-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777416503321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Is human nature obsolete? : genetics bioengineering, and the future of the human condition / / edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina | 174/.957 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BaillieHarold W. <1950->
CaseyTimothy |
Collana | Basic bioethics |
Soggetto topico |
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Philosophical anthropology |
ISBN |
0-262-30821-5
1-282-09971-X 9786612099717 0-262-26757-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828656703321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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