Fables and Futures
Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
$57.65
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
How new biomedical technologies—from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques—require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.
From next-generation prenatal tests to virtual children and the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. That power implies a question about belonging: Which people, which variations, will we welcome? How will we square new biotech advances with the real but f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262052948 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262052946 |
| Author: | George Estreich |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
George Estreich
George Estreich is the author of The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir. His writing has appeared in Tin House, the New York Times, Salon, and other publications. He teaches writing at Oregon State University.
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