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Zusatztext 'Every now and again a book comes along that goes straight to the heart of a complex and rather baffling debate! and makes it clear ... This is a fine! well-written book ...full of startling ideas' Informationen zum Autor Bill McKibben is the author of The Age of Missing Information and The End of Nature ! and writes regularly for The New Yorker .  He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books ! The New York Times and  Rolling Stone . Klappentext Scientists may soon reprogramme a human egg or sperm cell! make a change in the genetic instructions carried by that cell! a change that can be passed on down into eternity. The author asks should this happen? He argues that genetic engineering and the technologies that lie beyond it can launch us free of our past! of our humanity! of meaning. A ground-breaking work on the implications of human genetic engineering for our future, and what it means to be human Zusammenfassung Scientists may soon reprogramme a human egg or sperm cell, make a change in the genetic instructions carried by that cell, a change that can be passed on down into eternity. The author asks should this happen? He argues that genetic engineering and the technologies that lie beyond it can launch us free of our past, of our humanity, of meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Bill McKibben, McKibben Bill
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2004
• EAN: 9780747565437
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-6543-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, popular science, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Genetic Engineering, Genetics (non-medical), Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct