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Can Science Make Sense of Life?

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New Human Frontiers

Paru le : 2019-03-05

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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature’s mistakes.
Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.
Pages
156 pages
Collection
New Human Frontiers
Parution
2019-03-05
Marque
Polity
EAN papier
9781509522705
EAN EPUB
9781509522743
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Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
156
Taille du fichier
317 Ko
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11,91 €

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