Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension.(Book Review)

From: The Humanist | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

(Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 2003); 439 pp; $25.00 cloth

Could humankind, by tinkering its genetic code, gain immortality? Is humanity sufficiently morally evolved to assume the role of God? And if there is no god but humanity, "is everything permitted" (to borrow a phrase from Fyodor Dostoyevsky)? As humanity ushers in the brave new world of genetic engineering, these thoughts acquire an altogether new twist. For humankind will indeed have to take ethical responsibility for tinkering with the genetic code that may allow the human species to re-create itself, ...

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