William Kristol, Eric Cohen

The Future Is Now

America Confronts the New Genetics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780742521957
• ISBN-10: 0742521958
• Artikelnr.: 22012170

Autorenporträt

By William Kristol and Eric Cohen - Contributions by George J. Annas; Ronald Bailey; Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond; J Bottum; Sen Sam Brownback; President George W. Bush; Eric Cohen; Kenneth L. Connor; Richard M. Doerflinger; Michael J. Fox; Bill Frist; Fran

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Future is Now Part 2 Part I: Brave New World?
Chapter 3 Section A: Dream or Nightmare? Chapter 4 Selections from Brave
New World (1932) Chapter 5 Social Biology and Population Improvement,
Nature (1939) Chapter 6 Section B: Making Life in the Laboratory Chapter 7
Unpredictable Variety Still Rules Human Reproduction, Washington Post
(1967) Chapter 8 Genetic Tampering, Washington Post (1967) Chapter 9
Experimental Genetics and Human Evolution, American Naturalist (1966)
Chapter 10 Selections from Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control
(1970) Chapter 11 Moving Toward the Clonal Man Atlantic Monthly (1971)
Chapter 12 Making Babies: The New Biology and the Old Morality The Public
Interest (1972) Chapter 13 "Making Babies" Revisited Public Interest (1979)
Chapter 14 Section C: The New Genetics and the American Future Chapter 15
Two Cheers (or Maybe Just One) for Progress, The Wall Street Journal (1999)
Chapter 16 A Milestone in the Conquest of Nature, The Wall Street Journal
(2000), Chapter 17 Designing Our Descendants, First Things (2001) Chapter
18 Politics in a Brave New World, The Public Interest (2001) Part 19 Part
II: Politics in the Genetic Age-Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond Part 20
Section A: The Cloning/Stem Cell Debate, 1997-2000 Chapter 21 Testimony,
U.S. Senate (March 1997) Chapter 22 Testimony, U.S. Senate (March 1997)
Chapter 23 The Wisdom of Repugnance, The New Republic (June 1997) Chapter
24 Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations (June 1997) Chapter 25
Testimony, U. S. Senate (June 1997) Chapter 26 Second Thoughts on Cloning,
New York Times (Dec. 1997) Chapter 27 Of Headless Mice...And Men, Time
Magazine (Jan. 1998) Chapter 28 Who's Afraid of Human Cloning, Washington
Post (Feb. 1998) Chapter 29 Congressional Record, U.S. Senate (Feb. 1998)
Chapter 30 Congressional Record, U.S. Senate (Feb. 1998) Chapter 31
Liberalism and Cloning, The Weekly Standard (Oct. 1998) Chapter 32
Testimony, U.S. Senate (Dec. 1998) Chapter 33 Testimony, U.S. Senate (Dec.
1998) Chapter 34 Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research (Sept. 1999)
Chapter 35 Petri Dish Politics, Reason Magazine (Dec. 1999) Chapter 36
Reason, Faith and Stem Cells, The Washington Post (Aug. 2000) Chapter 37
Pig-Man Cometh, The Weekly Standard (Oct. 2000) Chapter 38 A Crucial
Election for Medical Research, New York Times (Nov. 2000) Part 39 Section
B: The Cloning/Stem Cell Debate - 2001 Chapter 40 The Point of a Ban,
Hastings Center (Jan/Feb) Chapter 41 Why Pro-Lifers Are Missing the Point,
Time Magazine (Feb) Chapter 42 The Politics of Stem Cells, The Weekly
Standard (March) Chapter 43 Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives
(March) Chapter 44 Against Human Cloning, The Weekly Standard (April)
Chapter 45 Testimony, U.S. Senate (May) Chapter 46 Preventing a Brave New
World, The New Republic (May) Chapter 47 Separating Good Biotech From the
Bad, The Wall Street Journal (May) Chapter 48 The Politics of Cloning, Los
Angeles Times (June) Chapter 49 Letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson
(June) Chapter 50 For a Total Ban on Human Cloning, The Weekly Standard
(June) Chapter 51 Cell Out, Slate (July) Chapter 52 Of Missile Defense and
Stem Cells, The Weekly Standard (July) Chapter 53 Testimony, U.S. Senate
(July) Chapter 54 Testimony, U.S. Senate (July) Chapter 55 Testimony, U.S.
Senate (July) Chapter 56 A Nightmare of a Bill, The Washington Post (July)
Chapter 57 Stem-Cell Research: Don't Destroy Human Life Chapter 58
Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives (July) Chapter 59
Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives (July) Chapter 60
Cloning Stem Cells, and Beyond, The Weekly Standard (Aug.) Chapter 61
Address to the Nation (Aug.) Chapter 62 Stem Cell Science and the
Preservation of Life, New York Times (Aug.) Chapter 63 Stem Cells: Bush's
Broken Promise, Washington Post (Aug.), Chapter 64 Stem Cell Decision: A
Missouri Compromise, Los Angeles Times (Aug.) Part 65 Part III: Mortality
and the American Character Chapter 66 Why Not Immortality? First Things
(May 2001) Chapter 67 Biodemocracy in America The Public Interest (Winter
2002) Chapter 68 Of Terrorism and Cloning