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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 : Picador, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 272 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves, history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that the greatest advances still to come will be in the life sciences, Fukuyama now asks how the ability to modify human behavior will affect liberal democracy." "In Our Posthuman Future, our greatest social philosopher describes the potential effects of our exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Pathways to the future. 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 -- Part II: Being human. Human rights ; Human nature ; Human dignity -- Part III: What to do. The political control of biotechnology ; How biotechnology is regulated today ; Policies for the future.
- ISBN
- 0312421710
- LCCN
- ^^2003041626
- OCLC
- 234840628
- SCSB-10094120
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library