Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition

Name: Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition
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ISBN: 9780262524285

ISBN-10: 0262524287

ISBN-13: 9780262524285

Edition: 2004

Authors: Harold W Baillie, Timothy K. Casey

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What does it mean to be human against a background of current advances in biotechnology? 'Is Human Nature Obsolete?' takes a philosophical perspective, with the focus on questions of fundamental ontological importance rather than specifics of medical or scientific practice.

Book details

List price: $6.75
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Harold W. Baillie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments



Introduction




Historical Perspectives



Nature, Technology, and the Emergence of Cybernetic Humanity




Nature and Human Nature




Life Sciences: Discontents and Consolations




Genetic Engineering and Eugenics: The Uses of History




Embodiment and Self-Identity



The Body and the Quest for Control




Visions and Re-visions: Life and the Accident of Birth




Aristotle and Genetic Engineering: The Uncertainty of Excellence




Freedom and Telos



Human Recency and Race: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz




Human Nature in a Post-Human Genome Project World




Telos, Value, and Genetic Engineering




Social and Political Critiques



Nature, Sin, and Society




Human Genetic Intervention: Past, Present, and Future




Resistance Is Futile: The Posthuman Condition and Its Advocates



Contributors


Index