TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baillie,Harold W.
AU  - Casey,Timothy K.
TI  - Is Human Nature Obsolete?: Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition
T2  - Basic Bioethics Series
SN  - 9780262267571
AV  - QH438.7.I8 2005 
U1  - 174/.957 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- 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 Auschwitz -- 10 - 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
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