Future perfect? : God, medicine and human identity /: God, medicine and human identity. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and Peter Manley Scott.
• Editors: Deane-Drummond, Celia; Scott, Peter, 1961-
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors; Preface to this Edition; Introduction: Future Perfect? Or, What Should We Hope For? Peter Manley Scott and Celia Deane-Drummond; Part I: Perspectives on Humans; Chapter 1: Perfect Humans or Trans-Humans?; Chapter 2: Human Nature and the Human Condition; Chapter 3: The Nature of Human Welfare; Chapter 4: In Whose Image? Representations of Technology and the 'Ends' of Humanity; Part II: Medicalized Humans; Chapter 5: In the Waters of Babylon: The Moral Geography of the Embryo; Chapter 6: Neuroscience and the Modification of Human Beings. Chapter 7: Ensoulment Revised in Response to Genetics, Neuroscience and Out-of-Body ExperiencesChapter 8: Medicine, Science and Virtue; Part III: Fabulous Humans; Chapter 9: Forecasting the Future: Legitimizing Hope and Calming Fears in the Embryo Stem-cell Debate; Chapter 10: Never Too Late to Live a Little Longer? The Quest for Extended Life and Immortality -- Some Ethical Considerations; Chapter 11: Genetic Perfection, or Fulfilment of Creation in Christ?; Chapter 12: Future Perfect? God, the Transhuman Future and the Quest for Immortality. Chapter 13: Saving Us from Ourselves: Christology, Anthropology and the Seduction of Posthuman MedicineBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.
• Publisher Details: London New York : T & T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (236 pages)
• Subjects: 128; Human genetics -- Social aspects; Medical technology -- Moral and ethical aspects; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism; Human genetics -- Social aspects; Medical technology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567375605; 0567375609
• Related ISBNs: 9780567234018
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2014).
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