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Tables of Contents for Cloning the Buddha
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreward
ix
8
DORION SAGAN
LYNN MARGULIS
Preface
xvii
Introduction
1
22
1. The Spiral Ladder
23
38
A Code of Life
24
3
An Intelligent Context
27
4
Curbing the Dogma
31
3
The Rockefeller Foundation's Molecular Vision
34
6
This Is Not Merely Academic
40
3
Genes and Behavior
43
5
Genes and Evolution
48
5
The Gaian Alternative
53
8
2. Machines and Organisms: A Spiritual Perspective
61
18
Machine Mind, Computer Mind
64
2
A Ghost in the Machine?
66
7
The Essence of the Sacred
73
6
3. Biotech Basics
79
26
Recombinant DNA
84
4
Transgenic Organisms
88
4
Cloning
92
3
The Biotech Workshop
95
3
See--It Works!... Or Does It?
98
7
4. Patents and Profits
105
28
Owning Ideas
106
4
Patenting Potatoes, Pigs, and People
110
6
Monsanto: Betting the Farm on Biotech
116
9
Leave It to the Market?
125
4
Corporations and Bioethics
129
4
5. Exploring Our Intuitive Responses to Biotech: "Yuk" or "Wow"?
133
32
A Morally Neutral Tool?
135
5
Taking the Moral Pulse
140
9
Thou Shalt Not Tinker...
149
9
It Is Thy Destiny...
158
7
6. The DNA Cult
165
18
The Techno-Monks'Legacy
170
4
Perfecting Nature, Perfecting Ourselves
174
6
Beyond Hubris
180
3
7. A Different Path
183
34
Against Biotechnology: Moral Arguments
183
10
For Biotechnology: Moral Arguments
193
6
The Biotech Wars
199
6
Wisdom Traditions and the Meaning of Life
205
10
Visions for the Future
215
2
8. Cloning the Buddha?
217
16
Beyond Risks and Benefits
223
3
What to Do?
226
7
Appendix
233
2
Notes
235
16
Resources
251
3
Index
254