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Consumer's guide to a brave new world

Title
Consumer's guide to a brave new world / Wesley J. Smith.
Author
Smith, Wesley J.
Publication
San Francisco, CA : Encounter Books, 2004.

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Description
xv, 219 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"In addition to explaining the science of stem cells this highly readable and carefully researched book reports on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and in the science and bioethics establishments. Smith reveals how this lobby works and how the ideology of "scientism," mixed with the lure of riches, threatens to impose on society a "new eugenics" that would dismantle ethical norms and compromise the uniqueness and importance of all human life."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Biotechnology > Social aspects
  • Genetic engineering > Social aspects
  • Bio-ethiek
  • Stamcellen
  • Genetische manipulatie
  • Kloneren
  • Mensen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Biotech new world -- Ch. 2. The great stem cell debate of 2001 -- Ch. 3. Reproduction as replication -- Ch. 4. The foot in the door to brave new world -- Ch. 5. Political science -- Ch. 6. Will humans remain human? -- Ch. 7. Food for thought.
ISBN
  • 1893554996 (alk. paper)
  • 9781893554993 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004056273
OCLC
  • ocm56198861
  • 56198861
  • SCSB-5533883
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries