Gregory E Kaebnick

Humans in Nature

The World as We Find It and the World as We Create It

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world? Through a study of debates about the environment, agricultural biotechnology, synthetic biology, and human enhancement, Gregory E. Kaebnick argues that such moral concerns about nature can be legitimate but are also complex, contestable, and politically limited.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 155mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780199347216
• ISBN-10: 0199347212
• Artikelnr.: 39338418

Autorenporträt

Gregory E. Kaebnick is a scholar at The Hastings Center and editor of the Hastings Center Report. He has been coinvestigator of two research projects funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on the ethical issues of synthetic biology, principal investigator of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities on appeals to nature in debates about biotechnology and the environment, coinvestigator in a National Institutes of Health-funded project on genetic paternity testing, and a participant in a series of other Hastings projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Rockefeller Foundation on issues concerning the application of medical technologies and agricultural biotechnology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. The Nature of "Nature": What to Ask of a Concept
Chapter 2. Perceptions of the Soul: The Nature of Morality
Chapter 3. The "Call of the Wild": Ideals and Obligations
Chapter 4. Space for Nature: Intrinsic Moral Values in Public Policy
Chapter 5. Nature Naturalized: Wilderness and Wildlife
Chapter 6. Nature on the Farm: Genetically Modified Plants and Animals
Chapter 7. Nature in the Factory: Synthetic Biology
Chapter 8: Nature in Us: Humanism and Transhumanism
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