Beyond Human: Engineering Our Future Evolution

✍ Scribed by Erik Seedhouse (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 161
• Series: Science and Fiction
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beyond Human is an informative and accessible guide for all those interested in the developing sciences of genetic engineering, bio printing and human cloning. Illustrating the ideas with reference to well-known science fiction films and novels, the author provides a unique insight into and understanding of how genetic manipulation, cloning, and other novel bio-technologies will one day allow us to redesign our species. It also addresses the legitimate concerns about “playing God”, while at the same time embracing the positive aspects of the scientific trajectory that will lead to our transhuman future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Human Genetic Engineering....Pages 1-20
Building Better Sportsmen: The Genetic Enhancement of Athletes....Pages 21-35
Cloning....Pages 37-49
The Human Clone Market....Pages 51-64
Bioprinting....Pages 65-76
Printing Humans....Pages 77-88
Designing Humans....Pages 89-108
Perils and Promises....Pages 109-121
Evolutionary Engineering....Pages 123-139
Back Matter....Pages 141-153

✦ Subjects

Genetic Engineering; Popular Science in Medicine and Health; Biomedical Engineering; Philosophy of Medicine