Brave New Worlds : Staying Human in the Genetic Future Bryan Appleyard

by Bryan Appleyard

Offers a review of modern-day scientific breakthroughs in biology and genetics while emphasizing the need for human ethics and values with regard to genetic manipulation

Hardcover

First published August 1, 1998

Reviews

[John Pollard · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was either 3 or 4 stars for me. Although genetics has moved on, I picked this up in a charity shop and it looked, and was, very interesting. I thought it would be good to get a perspective of a book on genetics from nearly two decades ago. Much of it is about the moral implications and directions in which advances in genetics will take as and is as relevant today as it was then. He discusses the boundaries between science and the rest of human belief (art, spirituality etc.) and it is the encroachment of this boundary in favour of science that concerns him most.