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ISBN
9781407085777
Genre
Algemeen
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10-02-2011
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Engels
Uitgever
Random House
Auteur(s)
Philip Ball
Unnatural
The Heretical Idea of Making People
Philip Ball
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€12,99
Can
we
make
a
human
being?The
question
has
been
asked
for
many
centuries,
and
has
produced
recipes
ranging
from
the
clay
golem
of
Jewish
legend
to
the
mass-produced
test-tube
babies
in
Brave
New
World.
Unnatural
delves
beneath
the
surface
of
the
cultural
history
of
'anthropoeia'
-
the
artificial
creation
of
people
-
to
explore
what
it
tells
us
about
our
views
on
life,
humanity,
creativity
and
technology,
and
the
soul.Philip
Ball
traces
the
threads
that
link
the
legendary
inventor
Daedalus,
Goethe's
tragic
Faust,
the
automata-making
magicians
of
E.T.A.
Hoffman
and
Mary
Shelley's
Victor
Frankenstein.
He
argues
that
these
old
tales
and
myths
are
alive
and
well,
subtly
manipulating
the
current
debates
about
assisted
conception,
embryo
research
and
human
cloning,
which
have
at
last
made
the
idea
of
'making
people'
into
flesh
and
blood reality.
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