书目名称 | On Human Nature | 副标题 | Anthropological, Bio | 编辑 | Armin Grunwald,Mathias Gutmann,Eva M. Neumann-Held | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Modern molecular technology in the so-called life sciences (biology as weil as medicine) allows today to approach and manipulate living beings in ways and to an extent wh ich not too long aga seemed Utopian. The empirical progress promises further and even more radical developments in the future, and it is at least often claimed that this kind of research will have tremendeous etfects on and for all of humanity, for example in the areas of food production, transplantation medicine (including stem cell research and xenotransplantation), (therapeutic) genetic manipulation and (cell-line) cloning (of cell lines or tissues), and of biodiversity conservation-strategies. At least in Western, industrialized countries the development of modern sciences led to a steady increase of human health, well-being and quality of life. However, with the move to make the human body itself an object of scientific research interests, the respective scientific descriptions resulted in changes in the image that human beings have of themselves. Scientific progress has led to a startling loss of traditional human self-understanding. This development is in contrast to an under standing according to which t | 出版日期 | Book 2002 | 关键词 | Embodiment; Gestalt; anthropology; biology; cognition; cognitive science; determinism; epistemology; ethics; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50023-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-50025-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-50023-7Series ISSN 1860-4803 Series E-ISSN 1860-4811 | issn_series | 1860-4803 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002 |
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