[DOWNLOAD] "Enhancement Technologies (Critical Evaluation of Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, By Carl Elliott)" by Modern Age ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Enhancement Technologies (Critical Evaluation of Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, By Carl Elliott)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, by Carl Elliott, New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. VARIOUS ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES now promise to make us "better than well." Not only is American medicine responsible for the healthiest society in history, but sophisticated and prosperous Americans are employing and will continue to employ medical enhancement technologies not merely to perfect but to improve upon their natures. Until now, the modern conquest of nature was limited by the intractability of human nature. The most radical program for historical human transformation we have hitherto known--communism--was easily defeated by the limits we have been given by nature. To a growing extent we will now be able to give orders to our nature, to add willfully to what we have been given biologically. The dream of communism for a "New Man" may now be fulfilled by biotechnology. How will our use of biotechnology, Carl Elliott asks, be conditioned by and perhaps transform "the American dream?"