| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Is human nature obsolete?/ edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey. |
| Reminder of title: |
genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the human condition / |
| other author: |
Baillie, Harold W., |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press, : c2005., |
| Description: |
x, 422 p. ;22 cm. |
| Notes: |
Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton. |
| Series: |
Basic bioethics |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Nature, technology, and the emergence of cybernetic humanity / Timothy K. Casey -- Nature and human nature / Mark Sagoff -- Life sciences : discontents and consolations / Paul Rabinow -- Genetic engineering and eugenics : the uses of history/ Diane B. Paul -- The body and the quest for control / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Visions and re-visions : life and the accident of birth / Richard M. Zaner -- Aristotle and genetic engineering : the uncertainty of excellence/ Harold W. Baillie -- Human recency and race : molecular anthropology, the refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO response to Auschwitz / Robert N. Proctor -- Human nature in a post-human genome project world/ Thomas A. Shannon -- Telos, value, and genetic engineering Bernard E. Rollin -- Nature, sin, and society / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Human genetic intervention : past, present, and future/ LeRoy Walters -- Resistance is futile : the posthuman condition and its advocates / Langdon Winner. |
| Subject: |
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126004An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417575050 (electronic bk.) |