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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
- 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