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Redesigning Humans Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future

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ISBN-10: 0618340831

ISBN-13: 9780618340835

Edition: 2002

Authors: Gregory Stock

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A groundbreaking work, Redesigning Humans tackles the controversial subject of engineering the human germline -- the process of permanently altering the genetic code of an individual so that the changes are passed on to the offspring. Gregory Stock, an expert on the implications of recent advances in reproductive biology, has glimpsed the inevitable future of biomedical engineering. Within decades, Stock asserts, technological advances will bring meaningful changes to our offspring; this scientific revolution promises to fundamentally alter the human species. With recent findings presented in a new afterword, Stock's provocative assessment cuts through the debate to envision an age of…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Gregory Stock is a biophysicist, bestselling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA's School of Medicine. His interests lie in the scientific and evolutionary as well as ethical, social, and political implications of today's revolutions in the life sciences and in information technology and computers. He lives in Houston, Texas.

Preface to the Mariner Edition
The Last Human
Our Commitment to Our Flesh
Setting the Stage
Superbiology
Catching the Wave
Targets of Design
Ethics and Ideology
The Battle for the Future
The Enhanced and the Unenhanced
Regulatory Paths in the Era of Germinal Choice
Challenges to Come
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index