The Code of Codes : Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

Daniel J Kevles

ISBN 10: 0674136462 / ISBN 13: 9780674136465

Editore: Harvard University Press Jan 1993, 1993

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Neuware - The ultimate goal of the pioneering project outlined in this book is to map our genome--the key to what makes us human--in detail. The Code of Codes is a collective exploration of the substance and possible consequences of th is project in relation to ethics, law, and society. Codice articolo 9780674136465

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Titolo: The Code of Codes : Scientific and Social ...

Casa editrice: Harvard University Press Jan 1993

Data di pubblicazione: 1993

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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Now and then" writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself" In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life-and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.

L'autore:

Daniel Kevles is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Law at Yale University.