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The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics

Author(s): William Kristol editor The Weekly Standa (Author), Eric Cohen (Author, Contributor), George J. Annas (Contributor), Ronald Bailey Reason (Contributor), Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond (Contributor), J Bottum (Contributor), Sen Sam Brownback (Contributor), President George W. Bush (Contributor), Kenneth L. Connor (Contributor), Richard M. Doerflinger (Contributor), Michael J. Fox (Contributor), Bill Frist (Contributor), Francis Fukuyama author of The End of History and the Last Man (Contributor), Robert P. George Visiting Professor Harvard Law School, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudenc (Contributor), James K. Glassman (Contributor), Rep James Greenwood (Contributor), Sen Tom Harkin (Contributor), Sen Orrin G. Hatch (Contributor), Gertrude Himmelfarb (Contributor), Aldous Huxley (Contributor), Leon R. Kass (Contributor), Michael Kinsley (Contributor), Charles Krauthammer (Contributor), Rep Dennis J. Kucinich (Contributor), Joshua Lederberg (Contributor), Gilbert Meilaender (Contributor), H J. Muller (Contributor), National Bioethics Advisory Commission (Contributor), Edmund D. Pellegrino M.D. (Contributor), Rael (Contributor), Paul Ramsey (Contributor), William Saletan (Contributor), Wesley J. Smith (Contributor), James A. Thomson (Contributor), Laurence H. Tribe Harvard University (Contributor), James D. Watson (Contributor), Michael D. West (Contributor), Ian Wilmut head of the Department of Gene Expression and Development Roslin Institute (Contributor), Adam Wolfson (Contributor)

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 11 Mar. 2002
Language: English
Print length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0742521958
ISBN-13: 9780742521957

Book Description

Who could have imagined that President Bush’s first special address to the nation would be about the coming genetic revolution? Or that one of the defining issues in American Politics would be stem cell research? Clearly, a national debate has begun that will not soon end — one that will force America to confront whether genetics advances will contribute to human dignity or threaten it, whether there are moral limits to scientific progress, and in general what life will look like in the genetic age. Welcome to the politics of the 21st century. This collection, edited by William Kristol and Eric Cohen, chronicles the start of this great national debate. It looks back, beginning with selections from Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, who first imagined the possibility of a Brave New World many decades ago. It looks forward, moving on to the current debate over human cloning and stem cells, including articles, essays, speeches and testimony from genetic enthusiasts and critics, scientists and moralists, politicians and scholars. An original introduction by Kristol and Cohen maps out the major disagreements, the questions ahead, and their own view that America’s unchecked faith in technological progress needs a radical reconsideration. Other selections include essays by Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer; testimony from Geron president Thomas O’Karma, bioethicist Daniel Callahan and actor-activist Michael J. Fox; speeches from the House of Representatives debate on human cloning; and the President’s address to the nation.

Editorial Reviews

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This compilation will attract not only those struggling to understand the ethical debate over bioscience but also those trying to predict the political fortunes of the Republican right. ― Booklist

For those with archival interest to the history of this debate, there may be no more useful primer to conservative arguments over human nature and the limits of science. ― Los Angeles Times

Kristol and Cohen have edited a reader, The Future Is Now, that aims to present fairly many sides of a complex issue. In the main they have succeeded. ― The Public Interest

Morally serious people will be grateful to have this collection on hand as America faces the challenge nicely stated in the editor’s closing reflections. — Glenn Ellmers ― Claremont Review of Books

An interesting read, The Future Is Now should alert us all to the need for scientific literacy among a populace that will elect tomorrow’s decision makers. ― Science Books and Films

About the Author

William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard. Widely considered one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol regularly appears on major television public affairs shows. Eric Cohen is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center

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