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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Rewriting the Code of Life
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Where Darwin Meets Mendel -- Climbing The Complexity Ladder -- Decoding Identity -- The End Of Sex -- The Divine Sparks Of Pixie Dust -- Rebuilding The Living World -- Stealing Immortality From The Go...ds -- The Ethics Of Engineering Ourselves -- We Contain Multitudes -- The Arms Race Of The Human Race -- The Future Of Humanity. Jamie Metzl. Includes Bibliographical References.
The Genome
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Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
In Food, Inc., acclaimed journalist Peter Pringle shows how both sides in this overheated conflict have made false promises, engaged in propaganda science, and indulged in fear-mongering. In this urge...nt dispatch, he suggests that a fertile partnership between consumers, corporations, scientists, and farmers could still allow the biotech harvest to reach its full potential in helping to overcome the problem of world hunger, providing nutritious food and keeping the environment healthy.
The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Listen to a short interview with Michael SandelHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneBreakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will so...on be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature?The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda.In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America's preeminent moral and political thinkers. Publishers Weekly Our quest to create the perfect athlete or the perfect child reflects our drive for mastery and domination over life, says Sandel, a Harvard professor of government and a former member of the President's Council on Bioethics. In this evenhanded little book, which grew out of an essay in the Atlantic, Sandel says this quest endangers the view of human life as a gift. Allowing genetic engineering to erode our appreciation for natural gifts and talents, Sandel says, will affect how we understand humility, responsibility and solidarity; it deprives parents of the humility and enlarged human sympathies that an openness to the unbidden can cultivate. (The discussion of perfect children also gives Sandel an opportunity to rag on hyperparenting, a trend he sees as a similar expression of parents' desire for dominion.). In addition, if we all possess varying gifts and talents, then as part of our solidarity with others in our society we should share our gifts with those who lack comparable ones. Although Sandel's book treads over heavily traveled territory, it turns in a different direction from the standard arguments that the problem with bioengineering is that it deprives individuals of autonomy. (May)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
The Language of the Genes
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More Than Human
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The Goodness Gene
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50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know
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