Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hyde, Michael J., 1950-
• Herrick, James A.

Description

vii, 334 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate this biotechnological frontier demand a language that will describe our new future and discuss its ethics. After the Genome brings together expert voices from the realms of ethics, rhetoric, religion, and science to help lead complex conversations about end-of-life care, the relationship between sin and medicine, and the protection of human rights in a post-human world. With chapters on the past and future of the science-warfare narrative, the rhetoric of care and its effect on those suffering, black rhetoric and biotechnology, planning for the end of life, regenerative medicine, and more, After the Genome yields great insight into the human condition and moves us forward toward a genuinely humane approach to who we are and who we are becoming"--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14

Uniform Title

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14.

Subjects

• Bioethical Issues
• Bioethics > Philosophy
• Biotechnology > ethics
• Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Genomics > ethics
• Discourse analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-316) and index.

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 Keränen -- Suffering and the rhetoric of care / Judy Z. Segal.

Call Number

JFE 14-7293

ISBN

• 9781602586857 (hardback : acid-free paper)
• 1602586853 (hardback : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2012038950

OCLC

805047898

Title

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

Publisher

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-316) and index.

Added Author

Hyde, Michael J., 1950- editor.

Herrick, James A., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7293