Brave New Worlds

Staying Human in the Genetic Future

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by Bryan Appleyard

Viking Press

Due/Published July 1998, 208 pages, cloth

ISBN 0670869899

In this elegant stiletto of a book -- a primer for reclaiming the knowledge and power that is rightfully ours -- Bryan Appleyard explores the promise and the danger of genetic manipulation and forges a link between this scientific juggernaut and its moral and ethical implications. Only by making this connection, he insists, can non-scientists accept responsibility for grave decisions that have no historical precedent. In the end, Brave New Worlds is an eloquent plea to realign technological advances with human values.