After the genome : a language for our biotechnological future
β Scribed by Herrick, James A.; Hyde, Michael J
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 343
- Series
- Studies in rhetoric and religion 14
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Science, rhetoric, and speaking about the post-human future.
Abstract:
β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Faith in science : professional and public discourse on regenerative medicine / Tristan Keys, Nancy M.P. King, and Anthony Atala --
From Arrowsmith to Atwood : how did we come to disrespect science? / Ronald M. Green --
The "warfare" of science and religion and science's ethical profile / Thomas M. Lessl --
Is there a human nature? : an argument against modern excarnation / Jean Bethke Elshtain --
Crossing frontiers of science : trespassing into a godless space, or, Fulfilling our manifest destiny / Leah Ceccarelli --
The angels and devils of representing Prozac / Tod Chambers --
"Leave your medicine outside" : bioethics, spirituality, and the rhetoric of Appalachian serpent handlers / Bill J. Leonard --
Biovaluable stories and a narrative ethics of reconfigurable bodies / Arthur W. Frank --
Blacks and the language of their biotechnological future / Ezra E.H. Griffith --
Bioethics, economism, and the rhetoric of technological innovation / Howard Brody --
Technologies of the self at the end of life : pastoral power and the rhetoric of advance care planning / Lisa Kernen --
Suffering and the rhetoric of care / Judy Segal.
β¦ Subjects
Bioethics -- Philosophy. Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Discourse analysis. MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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