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The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) :illustrations
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Fables and futures :biotechnology, disability, and the stories we tell ourselves
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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262351799
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Biomedical platforms :realigning the normal and the pathological in late-twen…
Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting of hospital architecture to the redefinition of the human body, disease, and therapeutic practices. To describe this new alignment between the norma…
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- 9780262276870
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 544 pages) :illustrations.
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