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Identity Crisis.("Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution")
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar Straus, 272 pp., $25)
'We should not allow theology, philosophy, or politics to interfere with the decision we make on this issue," pronounced Ohio Democratic congressman Ted Strickland during the 2001 congressional debate on human cloning. Science alone, he believed, should guide our policy. But as social theorist (and member of the President's Council on Bioethics) Francis Fukuyama responds in this lucid overview of the biotechnology revolution and its discontents, "It is only 'theology, philosophy, or politics' that can establish the ends of science and the ...
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