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  • The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    by Katrien Devolder ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research. However, the process through which embryonic stem cells are obtained involves the destruction of early human embryos. Katrien Devolder focuses on the tension between the popular view that an embryo should never be deliberately harmed or ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Crack In Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg ...
    BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of BooksNot since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Defeat Your Own Clone

    And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution

    by Kyle Kurpinski, Terry D. Johnson ...
    Send in the clones! On second thought, maybe not.CAN IT READ MY MIND?WILL IT BE EVIL?HOW DO I STOP IT?Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingenious book from two bioengineering experts who show you how to survive—and thrive—in a new age of truly weird science.For decades, science fiction has been alerting us to the wonders and perils of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    by Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Eating in the Dark

    America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food

    by Kathleen Hart ...
    Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis, but few of us are aware we’re eating something that has been altered. Meanwhile, consumers abroad refuse to buy our engineered crops; their groceries are labeled so that everyone knows if the contents have been modified. What’s going on here? Why does the U.S. government treat engineered foods so differently from the rest of the world ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction

    by Henry T. Greely ...
    Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation, gestation, and birth. And it will be safe, lawful, and free. In this work of prophetic scholarship, Henry T. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Liminal Lives

    Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

    by Susan Merrill Squier ...
    Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility

    Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Michael J Hyde ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.The contributors examine moral and policy controversies surrounding biomedical technologies and their place in American society, beginning with an examination of discourse and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Embryo Politics

    Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies

    by Thomas Banchoff ...
    Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Synthetic Biology

    the technoscience and its societal consequences

    Edited by Markus Schmidt, Alexander Kelle, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Huib de Vriend ...
    Synthetic biology is becoming one of the most dynamic new fields of biology, with the potential to revolutionize the way we do biotechnology today. By applying the toolbox of engineering disciplines to biology, a whole set of potential applications become possible ranging very widely across scientific and engineering disciplines. Some of the potential benefits of synthetic biology, such as the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis

    Edited by Tamara Fischmann, Elisabeth Hildt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we „playing God“ more and more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to societies ... Read more

    $143.09 USD