The Social Implications of Bioengineering

by Elisabeth Gernsheim-Beck

Very rapid developments have taken place in reproductive medicine, biology, and genetics in recent years and jointly, these technologies are making possible entirely new forms of intervention in the substance of human life. Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim sets out to uncover some of the unexamined social and ethical ramifications of these new reproductive and gene technologies.

133 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1995