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Fables and Futures

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Fables and Futures

By George Estreich

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About the book

How new biomedical technologies-from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques-require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. That power implies a question about belonging: which people, which variations, will we welcome? How will we square new biotech advances with the real but fragile gain...Show more

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ISBN

9780262039567

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

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1

Original title

Fables and Futures

Format

Hardcover

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