The future is now : America confronts the new genetics
- Responsibility
- edited by William Kristol and Eric Cohen.
- Imprint
- Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield : Distributed by National Book Network, c2002.
- Physical description
- xix, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Kristol, William.
- Cohen, Eric, 1977-
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: The Future is Now
- William Kristol and Eric Cohen
- Part I: Brave New World? -
- Section A: Dream or Nightmare? -
- Selections from Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley
- Social Biology and Population Improvement, Nature (1939) - H.J. Muller
- Section B: Making Life in the Laboratory
- Unpredictable Variety Still Rules Human Reproduction, Washington Post (1967) - Joshua Lederberg
- Genetic Tampering, Washington Post (1967) - Leon R. Kass
- Experimental Genetics and Human Evolution, American Naturalist (1966) - Joshua Lederberg
- Selections from Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (1970) - Paul Ramsey
- Moving Toward the Clonal Man Atlantic Monthly (1971) - James D. Watson
- Making Babies: The New Biology and the Old Morality The Public Interest (1972) - Leon R. Kass
- "Making Babies" Revisited Public Interest (1979) - Leon R. Kass
- Section C: The New Genetics and the American Future -
- Two Cheers (or Maybe Just One) for Progress, The Wall Street Journal (1999) - Gertrude Himmelfarb
- A Milestone in the Conquest of Nature, The Wall Street Journal (2000), - Francis Fukuyama
- Designing Our Descendants, First Things (2001) - Gilbert Meilaender
- Politics in a Brave New World, The Public Interest (2001) - Adam Wolfson
- Part II: Politics in the Genetic Age--Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond -
- Section A: The Cloning/Stem Cell Debate, 1997-2000 -
- Testimony, U.S. Senate (March 1997) - Ian Wilmut
- Testimony, U.S. Senate (March 1997) - George J. Annas
- The Wisdom of Repugnance, The New Republic (June 1997) - Leon Kass
- Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations (June 1997) - National Bioethics Adv. Comm.
- Testimony, U. S. Senate (June 1997) - Edmund Pellegrino
- Second Thoughts on Cloning, New York Times (Dec. 1997) - Laurence Tribe
- Of Headless Mice And Men, Time Magazine (Jan. 1998) - Charles Krauthammer
- Who's Afraid of Human Cloning, Washington Post (Feb. 1998) - James Glassman
- Congressional Record, U.S. Senate (Feb. 1998) - Sen. Tom Harkin
- Congressional Record, U.S. Senate (Feb. 1998) - Sen. Kit Bond
- Liberalism and Cloning, The Weekly Standard (Oct. 1998) - Adam Wolfson
- Testimony, U.S. Senate (Dec. 1998) - James Thomson
- Testimony, U.S. Senate (Dec. 1998) - Richard Doerflinger
- Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research (Sept. 1999) - National Bioethics Advisory Committee
- Petri Dish Politics, Reason Magazine (Dec. 1999) - Richard Bailey
- Reason, Faith and Stem Cells, The Washington Post (Aug. 2000) - Michael Kinsley
- Pig-Man Cometh, The Weekly Standard (Oct. 2000) - J. Bottum
- A Crucial Election for Medical Research, New York Times (Nov. 2000) - Michael J. Fox
- Section B: The Cloning/Stem Cell Debate - 2001 -
- The Point of a Ban, Hastings Center (Jan/Feb) - Gilbert Meilaender
- Why Pro-Lifers Are Missing the Point, Time Magazine (Feb) - Charles Krauthammer
- The Politics of Stem Cells, The Weekly Standard (March) - Wesley Smith
- Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives (March) - RAEL
- Against Human Cloning, The Weekly Standard (Apri.
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- Publisher's summary
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This collection, edited by William Kristol and Eric Cohen, chronicles the start of the great national debate over stem cell research. It looks back, beginning with selections from Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, who first imagined the possibility of a Brave New World many decades ago. It looks forward, moving on to the current debate over human cloning and stem cells, including articles, essays, speeches and testimony from genetic enthusiasts and critics, scientists and moralists, politicians and scholars. An original introduction by Kristol and Cohen maps out the major disagreements, the questions ahead, and their own view that America's unchecked faith in technological progress needs a radical reconsideration. Visit our website for sample chapters!.
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- Publisher's summary
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Who could have imagined that President Bush's first special address to the nation would be about the coming genetic revolution? Or that one of the defining issues in American politics would be stem cell research? Clearly, a national debate has begun that will not soon end -one that will force America to confront whether genetics advances will contribute to human dignity or threaten it, whether there are moral limits to scientific progress, and in general what life will look like in the genetic age. This collection, edited by William Kristol and Eric Cohen, aims to chronicle the start of this national debate. It looks back, beginning with selections from Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, who first imagined the possibility of a Brave New World many decades ago. It looks forward, moving on to the debate over human cloning and stem cells, including articles, essays, speeches and testimony from genetic enthusiasts and critics, scientists and moralists, politicians and scholars. An introduction by Kristol and Cohen maps out the major disagreements, the questions ahead, and their own view that America's unchecked faith in technological progress needs a radical reconsideration. Other selections include essays by Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer; testimony from Geron president Thomas O'Karma, bioethicist Daniel Callahan and actor-activist Michael J. Fox; speeches from the House of Representatives debate on human cloning; and the President's address to the nation.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2002
- ISBN
- 0742521958 (alk. paper)
- 0742521966 (pbk.: alk. paper)
- 9780742521957 (alk. paper)
- 9780742521964 (pbk.: alk. paper)
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