The Code of Codes Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

Kevles, Daniel J. And Leroy Hood, Edited By

ISBN 10: 0674136462 / ISBN 13: 9780674136465

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1992

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State crime lab stamps on front endpage and half title and title pages, faint crease line down spine, top rear corner bent about 1/2" from tip, corner tips rubbed. 397 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Code of Codes Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674136462
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674136465
• Reliure: Soft Cover
• Édition: 5th Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good+
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science and Environment

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Synopsis

Now and then" writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself" In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life-and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.

À propos des auteurs

Daniel Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Law at Yale University.

Leroy Hood, MD, developed the DNA synthesizing technology that made possible the Human Genome Project and is cofounder of the Institute for Systems Biology. A pioneer in the fields of systems biology, proteomics, and P4 medicine, he has won the Kyoto Prize, the Lasker Award, the Heinz Award, and the National Medal of Science.