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Biotechnology: Our Future As Human Beings and Citizens

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Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

Author(s): Sean D. Sutton
Series: S U N Y Series in Philosophy and Biology
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 198

BIOTECHNOLOGY......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
INTRODUCTION. Biotechnology, Human Being, and Citizen......Page 13
1. Biotechnology and Our Human Future: Some General Reflections......Page 21
2. Who’s Afraid of Posthumanity?A Look at the Growing Left/Right Alliance in Opposition to Biotechnological Progress......Page 43
3. Bioethics and Human Betterment: Have We Lost Our Ability to Dream?......Page 61
4. Biotechnology in a World of Spiritual Beliefs......Page 79
5. Jewish Philosophy, Human Dignity,and the New Genetics......Page 93
6. The Bible and Biotechnology......Page 135
7. A Transcendent Vision: Theology and Human Transformation......Page 171
Suggested Further Readings......Page 201
Contributors......Page 203
C......Page 207
I......Page 208
P......Page 209
W......Page 210