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After the Genome : A Language for Our Biotechnological Future.
Title:
After the Genome : A Language for Our Biotechnological Future.
Author:
Atala, Anthony.
ISBN:
9781602586871
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (343 pages)
Series:
Studies in Rhetoric and Religion ; v.14

Studies in Rhetoric and Religion
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title Page, About the Series, Title Page, Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future: Rhetoric, Religion,Science, and Ethics -- 1. Faith in Science: Professional and Public Discourse on Regenerative Medicine -- 2. From Arrowsmith to Atwood: How Did We Cometo Disrespect Science? -- 3. The "Warfare" of Science and Religion and Science's Ethical Profile -- 4. Is There a Human Nature? An Argument Against Modern Excarnation -- 5. Crossing Frontiers of Science: Trespassing into a Godless Space or Fulfilling Our Manifest Destiny? -- 6. The Angels and Devils of Representing Prozac -- 7. "Leave your Medicine Outside": Bioethics, Spirituality, and the Rhetoric of Appalachian Serpent Handlers -- 8. Biovaluable Stories and a narrative Ethics of Reconfigurable Bodies -- 9. Blacks and the Language of Their Biotechnological Future -- 10. Bioethics, Economism, and the Rhetoric of Technological Innovation -- 11. Technologies of the Self at the End of Life: Pastoral Power and the Rhetoric of Advance Care Planning -- 12. Suffering and the Rhetoric of Care -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- index.
Abstract:
Science, rhetoric, and speaking about the post-human future.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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