Beyond Human?: Science and the Changing Face of Humanity

Abstract

Intro -- Praise for -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Starting from the Beginning -- 1.1 Beyond what? -- 1.2 Being human: the origins and early evolution of humankind -- 1.3 Corn and community, cities and civilization -- 2 The Way We Were -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Shifting power bases in the ancient world -- 2.3 Religion in the ancient world -- 2.4 Into Europe -- 2.5 Post-Roman Britain -- 2.6 Moving away from Rome -- 2.7 Science, culture and religion -- 2.8 The Industrial Revolution and the age of invention -- 2.9 Science, culture and religion revisited -- 2.10 Into the twentieth century -- 2.11 Some thoughts on the story so far -- 3 The Way We Are -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Communism and capitalism -- 3.3 Israel and Palestine -- 3.4 The European Union -- 3.5 The 1960s -- 3.6 Northern Ireland -- 3.7 Terrorism and war -- 3.8 Power bases shift again -- 3.9 Science, religion and culture -- 3.10 Human society: fraying round the edges or cracking down the middle? -- 3.11 After World War II: a final comment -- 4 Morals, Ethics and Complex Issues -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Ethical systems -- 4.3 A brief excursion into postmodernism -- 4.4 Application of ethics in medicine -- 4.5 Extending the ethical vision -- 5 Genes, Genetics and Human Disease -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Early understanding -- 5.3 Genes and medicine: the early years -- 5.4 The new genetic revolution -- 5.5 Science, sequences and sickness -- 6 Genetic Testing and Diagnosis: The Good, the Bad and the Muddly -- 6.1 Genetic testing and diagnosis -- 6.2 Prenatal and pre-implantation testing: wider ethical issues -- 6.3 A gene for this and a gene for that -- 6.4 Concluding remarks -- 7 Medical Technology: From Gamete to Grave -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The art of reproduction: from donor insemination to test-tube babies -- 7.3 Gene therapy