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Our posthuman future : consequences of the biotechnology revolution / Francis Fukuyama.
LIBRA TP248.2 .F84 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fukuyama, Francis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology.
- Social change--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Social history--1945-.
- Social history.
- Social norms--History--20th century.
- Social norms.
- Social integration.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Consequences of the biotechnology revolution
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002.
- Summary:
- A great social philosopher persuasively argues that the ultimate prize of the biotechnology revolution--the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of a person's descendants--will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken by ordinary parents seeking to "improve" their children.
- Contents:
- A tale of two dystopias
- Sciences of the brain
- Neuropharmacology and the control of behavior
- The prolongation of life
- Genetic engineering
- Why we should worry
- Human rights
- Human nature
- Human dignity
- The political control of biotechnology
- How biotechnology is regulated today
- Policies for the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0374236437
- OCLC:
- 49502279
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