The Mutant Project
Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
$32.58
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2020
Summary
This fascinating book examines the politics, ethics, and economics of gene therapies, and the scientists, lobbyists, entrepreneurs, and activists remaking the human race.
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?
At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760642150 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760642150 |
| Author: | Eben Kirksey |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | La Trobe University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 448g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 155mm x 232mm |
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Eben Kirksey
Eben Kirksey is an expert on science and justice. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Atlantic and Wired. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and an associate professor of anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kirksey is the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds and Emergent Ecologies.
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