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019 $a179813970
020 $a9781594032080 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a1594032084 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBJ59$b.C595 2008
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100 1 $aCohen, Eric,$d1977-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002021901
245 10 $aIn the shadow of progress :$bbeing human in the age of technology /$cEric Cohen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEncounter Books,$c2008.
300 $a181 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tThe Question of Progress -- $gPt. 1.$tScience and the Human Prospect -- $gCh. 1.$tThe Spirit of Modern Science -- $gCh. 2.$tThe Human Difference -- $gPt. 2.$tThe Ethics of Progress -- $gCh. 3.$tBioethics in Wartime -- $gCh. 4.$tThe Embryo Question -- $gCh. 5.$tOur Genetic Condition -- $gCh. 6.$tThe Commerce of the Body -- $gCh. 7.$tA Jewish-Catholic Bioethics? -- $gPt. 3.$tFrom Generation to Generation -- $gCh. 8.$tWhy Have Children? -- $gCh. 9.$tIn Whose Image Shall We Die?
520 1 $a"In the Shadow of Progress is a deep and lively reflection on the moral challenges of the technological age. Eric Cohen, a leading voice in America's bioethics debates, offers a tour of the complex dilemmas at the intersection of science and morality, moving seamlessly from contemporary subjects like stem cells and evolution lo classic texts like the Hebrew Bible and Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis."" "Why are the wealthiest people in human history the least likely to want children? What kind of civilization will we become if we seek cures for the sick by destroying human embryos? What is lost when we relieve human sadness by altering the chemical balance of the brain, or enhance human performance by altering the biological workings of the body? In this age of scientific wonders, have we forgotten what sets human beings apart from everything else in the natural world? Can the fruits of modern science ever satisfy our deepest longings - for love, for virtue, and for transcendence?" "In the end, Cohen argues, there are no easy answers. Our challenge is to live simultaneously with gratitude and fear, pride and shame, sobriety and hope, in this new age of technology."--BOOK JACKET.
500 $6 0$aNew Atlantis Books.$a"New Atlantis Books."$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008133823
650 0 $aTechnology$xMoral and ethical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133162
852 00 $boff,glx$hBJ59$i.C595 2008