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Title: The Future is Now
Condition: New
Subtitle: America Confronts the New Genetics
ISBN-10: 0742521966
EAN: 9780742521964
ISBN: 9780742521964
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 03/04/2002
Description: Who could have imagined that President Bush's first special address to the nation would be about the coming genetic revolution? Or that one of the defining issues in American Politics would be stem cell research? Clearly, a national debate has begun that will not soon end — one that will force America to confront whether genetics advances will contribute to human dignity or threaten it, whether there are moral limits to scientific progress, and in general what life will look like in the genetic age. Welcome to the politics of the 21st century. This collection, edited by William Kristol and Eric Cohen, chronicles the start of this great national debate. It looks back, beginning with selections from Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, who first imagined the possibility of a Brave New World many decades ago. It looks forward, moving on to the current debate over human cloning and stem cells, including articles, essays, speeches and testimony from genetic enthusiasts and critics, scientists and moralists, politicians and scholars. An original introduction by Kristol and Cohen maps out the major disagreements, the questions ahead, and their own view that America's unchecked faith in technological progress needs a radical reconsideration. Other selections include essays by Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer; testimony from Geron president Thomas O'Karma, bioethicist Daniel Callahan and actor-activist Michael J. Fox; speeches from the House of Representatives debate on human cloning; and the President's address to the nation.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 226mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 499g
Contributor: Kristol William (Edited by), Eric Cohen (Edited by), George J. Annas (Contributions by), Ronald Bailey (Contributions by), Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond (Contributions by), J Bottum (Contributions by), Sen Sam Brownback (Contributions by), President George W. Bush (Contributions by), Eric Cohen (Contributions by), Kenneth L. Connor (Contributions by), Richard M. Doerflinger (Contributions by), Michael J. Fox (Contributions by), Bill Frist (Contributions by), Francis Fukuyama (Contributions by), Robert P. George (Contributions by), James K. Glassman (Contributions by), Rep James Greenwood (Contributions by), Sen Tom Harkin (Contributions by), Sen Orrin G. Hatch (Contributions by), Gertrude Himmelfarb (Contributions by), Aldous Huxley (Contributions by), Leon R. Kass (Contributions by), Michael Kinsley (Contributions by), Charles Krauthammer (Contributions by), William Kristol (Contributions by), Rep Dennis J. Kucinich (Contributions by), Joshua Lederberg (Contributions by), Gilbert Meilaender (Contributions by), H J. Muller (Contributions by), National Bioethics Advisory Commission (Contributions by), Paul Ramsey (Contributions by), William Saletan (Contributions by), Wesley J. Smith (Contributions by), James A. Thomson (Contributions by), Laurence H. Tribe (Contributions by), James D. Watson (Contributions by), Michael D. West (Contributions by), Ian Wilmut (Contributions by), Adam Wolfson (Contributions by), Edmund D. Pellegrino M.D. (Contributions by), Rael (Contributions by)
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Author: Kristol William
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Medicine, Technology & Engineering
Release Year: 2002

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