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Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy And the Quest to Perfect Nature
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
August 15, 2005
Pages
333
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226575247
ISBN-10
0226575241
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$34.00
Other format details
university press
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Hardcover
from Univ of Chicago Pr (June 28, 2004)
9780226577128 | details & prices | 333 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $38.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (August 15, 2005)
9780226575247 | details & prices | 333 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $34.00
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