Authors: Lee M. Silver
ISBN-13: 9780061235191, ISBN-10: 0061235199
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Lee M. Silver is professor of molecular biology and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton Uni-versity, and author of Challenging Nature. He holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University, and he lives with his family in New Jersey and New York.
Could a child have two genetic mothers? Will parents someday soon be able to choose not only the physical characteristics of their children-to-be, but their personalities and talents as well? Will genetic enhancement ultimately lead to a split in the human species?
In this brilliant, provocative, and necessary book, Lee M. Silver takes a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago—indeed, in ways that go far beyond cloning. In clear, engaging, and accessible prose, Silver demystifies the science behind a myriad of thrilling and frightening new possibilities, in a book that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the hopes and dilemmas of the American family in the twenty-first century.
Where can we expect this new era to take us? Lee M. Silver has some answers, and if you thing you are opposed to cloning human beings, be prepared for a major reassessment...Remaking Eden should be required reading for politicians before they consider legislation regarding human cloning.
Prologue: A Glimpse of Things to Come | 1 | |
1 | What Is Life? | 15 |
2 | Where Does Life Come From? | 24 |
3 | Doe Your First Cell Deserve Respect? | 35 |
4 | From Your First Cell to You | 48 |
5 | Babies Without Sex | 63 |
6 | In Vitro Fertilization and the Dawn of a New Age | 67 |
7 | Frozen Life | 78 |
8 | From Science Fiction to Reality | 91 |
9 | Human "Cuttings" | 102 |
10 | Where Will Cloning Lead Us? | 126 |
11 | Three Mothers and Two Fathers | 133 |
12 | Contracting for a Biological Mother | 138 |
13 | Buying and Selling Sperm and Eggs | 152 |
14 | Confused Heritage | 163 |
15 | Shared Genetic Motherhood | 176 |
16 | Could a Father Be a Mother? | 191 |
17 | The Virtual Child | 199 |
18 | The Designer Child | 227 |
Epilogue: Human Destiny? | 240 | |
Acknowledgments | 251 | |
Notes | 255 | |
Index | 307 | |
About the Author | 317 |