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| Preface | ||
| 1 | Science and the self-image of the age | 1 |
| Icon and understanding | 1 | |
| The fractured image: Einstein vs. Frankenstein | 7 | |
| Science | 9 | |
| Technology | 14 | |
| Anti-science | 19 | |
| Explaining things | 21 | |
| Engineering things | 25 | |
| Pure and applied science | 27 | |
| 2 | Genetic explanation | 31 |
| Evolution and creationism | 32 | |
| Natural selection and 'the selfish gene' | 38 | |
| Survival of the fittest | 46 | |
| Altruism, homosexuality and sterility | 49 | |
| Irreducible complexity and the biochemical | 56 | |
| Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology | 66 | |
| Taking stock | 80 | |
| Memetics | 82 | |
| 3 | Genetic engineering | 91 |
| Genetic screening | 93 | |
| Genetic information | 103 | |
| Genetic modification | 113 | |
| Environmentalism | 121 | |
| The precautionary principle | 126 | |
| Genetic research | 130 | |
| The 'slippery slope' and the 'sanctity of life' | 135 | |
| 4 | Playing God | 143 |
| Secular versions of the sacred | 143 | |
| Genetic trespassing | 146 | |
| Rights and equality | 150 | |
| Human cloning | 153 | |
| Stem cell production | 159 | |
| Reproductive technologies | 162 | |
| Designer babies and eugenics | 169 | |
| Procreative responsibility and the ethics of abortion | 175 | |
| 'Playing God' without God | 180 | |
| Bibliography | 186 | |
| Index | 190 |
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