Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- I - Historical Perspectives -- 2 - Nature, Technology, and the Emergence of Cybernetic Humanity -- 3 - Nature and Human Nature -- 4 - Life Sciences: Discontents and Consolations -- 5 - Genetic Engineering and Eugenics: The Uses of History -- II - Embodiment and Self-Identity -- 6 - The Body and the Quest for Control -- 7 - Visions and Re-visions: Life and the Accident of Birth -- 8 - Aristotle and Genetic Engineering: The Uncertainty of Excellence -- III - Freedom and Telos -- 9 - Human Recency and Race: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz -- 10 - Human Nature in a Post-Human Genome Project World -- 11 - Telos, Value, and Genetic Engineering -- IV - Social and Political Critiques -- 12 - Nature, Sin, and Society -- 13 - Human Genetic Intervention: Past, Present, and Future -- 14 - Resistance Is Futile: The Posthuman Condition and Its Advocates -- Contributors -- Index.