Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People

ISBN-13: 9781844076222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str.

Peter Healey; Steve Rayner

Opis

Should we engineer humans to be stronger, smarter - even immortal? This is a controversial and important topic which raises fundamental ethical questions about evolution, what it is to be human and control over enhancement technologies

Spis treści

Introduction * One World or Several? * The Nature of Human Natures * Longer? * Stronger? * Smarter? * Happier? * Fairer? * Governable? * Postscript: Choosing our Biological Future * Index

O autorze

Peter Healey is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford. Steve Rayner is James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Society, University of Copenhagen.