Our Posthuman Future (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Fukuyama
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Ethics and philosophy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Human race, Equality, Drugs, Ethics, Medicine, Human behavior, Nazism or Nazis, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Genetics, Medical ethics, Thought or thinking, Bioethics, Life sciences, Clones or cloning
There have been extraordinary advances in the life sciences over the past half-century, culminating in the discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and the pace has quickened of late with the widespread application of biotechnology in the lives of much of the world’s population. As Francis Fukuyama observes in his very significant ethical work Our Posthuman Future, it will soon be routinely possible for parents to screen their embryos for a wide range of disorders and have only those with desirable genes implanted in the mother’s womb. While this process might be acceptable...
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