The Future Is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics

by Eric Cohen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742521966
• ISBN13: 9780742521964
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"