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New York:: Viking, 1998., 1998. 8vo. x, 198 pp. Index. Quarter slate cloth, gray boards, dust jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0670869899 "In a less-than-subtle anti-science polemic, London Times columnist Appleyard (Understanding the Present) addresses some of the myriad ramifications of our expanding knowledge of genetics. ""Concealed within the knowledge we are now acquiring are insights that may be profoundly socially divisive and which could overthrow the basis on which the wealth and stability of Western democracies are constructed,"" is one of his many pronouncements. Appleyard adequately explores some of the obvious ethical implications sure to be present in a future in which our genetic makeups are known to all and possibly open to manipulation: selective abortion of fetuses not to the liking of prospective parents; the refusal of insurance companies to cover individuals with genetic predispositions for certain disorders; the inevitable quagmire in the criminal justice system when criminals argue…
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- Title Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future
- Author Bryan Appleyard
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 198
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-08-01
- ISBN 9780670869893 / 0670869899
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.37 x 0.8 in (23.88 x 16.18 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010243
- Dewey Decimal Code 174.25
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