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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Gregory Stock |
ISBN: | 0618340831 9780618340835 |
OCLC Number: | 51756081 |
Notes: | "A Mariner book." "With a new preface"--Cover. Hardback ed. published in 2002 with subtitle: Our inevitable genetic future. |
Description: | xvi, 277 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Preface to the Mariner edition -- 1. The last human -- 2. Our commitment to our flesh -- 3. Setting the stage -- 4. Superbiology -- 5. Catching the wave -- 6. Targets of design -- 7. Ethics and ideology -- 8. The battle for the future -- 9. The enhanced and the unenhanced -- Appendix 1. Regulatory paths in the era of germinal choice -- Appendix 2. Challenges to come -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Gregory Stock. |
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Abstract:
In a book that is sure to elicit an emotional response from readers, Stock shows that governments, religious groups, and others with ethical and moral concerns will not be able to stop the coming trend of choosing genes at the embryo stage.
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