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9780684827056

The Lives to Come

by Kitcher, Philip
  • ISBN13:

    9780684827056

  • ISBN10:

    0684827050

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-08-04
  • Publisher: Free Press
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Summary

ect, Philip Kitcher takes readers into the heart of the revolution in genetic research today and raises important philosophical questions about its impact on ethical, legal, and political issues, now and in the future.

Author Biography

Philip Stuart Kitcher is a philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
9(4)
1. The Shapes of Suffering
13(10)
2. Our Mortal Coils
23(42)
3. To Test or Not to Test?
65(22)
4. The Road to Health?
87(18)
5. A Patchwork of Therapies
105(22)
6. The New Pariahs?
127(30)
7. Studies in Scarlet
157(30)
Interlude: The Specters That Won't Go Away
181(6)
8. Inescapable Eugenics
187(18)
9. Delimiting Disease
205(16)
10. Playing God?
221(18)
11. Fascinating Genetalk
239(32)
12. Self-Dissection
271(14)
13. The Quality of Lives
285(24)
14. An Unequal Inheritance
309(18)
Postscript (March 1997) 327(16)
Notes 343(20)
Glossary 363(6)
Acknowledgments 369(6)
Index 375

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