After the genome : a language for our biotechnological future / Michael J. Hyde and James A. Herrick, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herrick, James A.

Hyde, Michael J., 1950-

Series:

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14.

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics--Philosophy.

Bioethics.

Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Biotechnology.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Science, rhetoric, and speaking about the post-human future

Contents:

Faith in science : professional and public discourse on regenerative medicine / Tristan Keys, Nancy M. P. King, and Anthony Atala

From Arrowsmith to Atwood : how did we come to disrespect science? / Ronald M. Green

The "warfare" of science and religion and science's ethical profile / Thomas M. Lessl

Is there a human nature? : an argument against modern excarnation / Jean Bethke Elshtain

Crossing frontiers of science : trespassing into a godless space, or, Fulfilling our manifest destiny / Leah Ceccarelli

The angels and devils of representing Prozac / Tod Chambers

"Leave your medicine outside" : bioethics, spirituality, and the rhetoric of Appalachian serpent handlers / Bill J. Leonard

Biovaluable stories and a narrative ethics of reconfigurable bodies / Arthur W. Frank

Blacks and the language of their biotechnological future / Ezra E. H. Griffith

Bioethics, economism, and the rhetoric of technological innovation / Howard Brody

Technologies of the self at the end of life : pastoral power and the rhetoric of advance care planning / Lisa Kernen

Suffering and the rhetoric of care / Judy Segal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299405783

1299405789

9781602586871

160258687X

OCLC:

838414632