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The Genetic Future Is Now
Redesigning Humans vs. Regulating Science

BOOK FORUM
Friday, March 15, 2002
11:00 a.m.

Featuring a debate between authors Gregory Stock, UCLA School of Medicine; and Francis Fukuyama, Johns Hopkins University.

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While Congress prepares to debate possible restrictions on human cloning research, two new books look much further into our post-cloning genetic future from contrasting perspectives. In Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future (Houghton Mifflin), Gregory Stock argues that governments and social groups will not be able to stop parents from choosing their children's genes at the embryo stage. In Our Posthuman Society: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Francis Fukuyama issues a call for new regulatory institutions to control the future uses of human biotechnology, aiming at a nuanced middle ground between laissez faire and prohibition. Please come alone (or bring your clone) to our forum as Stock and Fukuyama debate the ground rules for a posthuman future and examine the essence of human nature, freedom, and scientific inquiry.

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