Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society

by Maxwell J. Mehlman

Book Overview

Wondergenes not only imagines a future world in which genetic enhancement is the norm, but asserts that this future has already begun. Genetically engineered substances are already in use by athletes, in vitro fertilization already provides the primitive means by which parents can "select" an embryo, and the ability to create new forms of genetically engineered human beings is not far off. What happens when gene therapy becomes gene enhancement?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253342740
• ISBN13: 9780253342744
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher