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Our posthuman future : consequences of the biotechnology revolution / Francis Fukuyama.

Title
Our posthuman future : consequences of the biotechnology revolution / Francis Fukuyama.
Author
Fukuyama, Francis
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

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Description
256 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A social philosopher examines how the foundation of liberal democracy, which is the belief that all human beings are equal by nature, could be shattered by the biotechnology revolution.
Subject
  • Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Human cloning > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Humanistic ethics
  • Biotechnology > ethics
  • Cloning, Organism > ethics
  • Genetic Engineering > ethics
  • Genetic Enhancement
  • Humanism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0374236437
LCCN
^^2002100914
OCLC
  • 49502279
  • SCSB-10093897
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library