Promethean ambitions : alchemy and the quest to perfect nature /
In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226577135 0226577139 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
