Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: November 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781893554993
Subjects: Biotechnology; Social aspects; Medical; Science; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / General; Genetic engineering; Ethics; Bio-ethiek; gtt
First sentence: "THE THEME OF BRAVE NEW WORLD is not the advancement of science as such," Aldous Huxley wrote in the foreword to a new 1946 edition of his groundbreaking novel, but rather "the advancement of science as it affects human individuals."
Description: "In addition to explaining the science of stem cells this highly readable and carefully researched book reports on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and in the science and bioethics establishments. Smith reveals how this lobby works and how the ideology of "scientism," mixed with the lure of riches, threatens to impose on society a "new eugenics" that would dismantle ethical norms and compromise the uniqueness and importance of all human life."--Jacket.