Reviews for Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness

The average rating for Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Jamison Murphy A variety of new drugs and other treatments are in the pipeline that have the potential to make us jump higher, think sharper, and have beautiful, strong children. This is the lay person's version of a report by the President's Council on Bioethics. As a body grafted of both free enterprise idealists and holier-than-thou moralists, the Council, through it's chairman/author Leon Cass, takes the unspoken position that the diffusion of such technologies is inevitable, unless individuals take a moral position against them (read: it's not government's role to stop them if people want them, but people shouldn't want them because that's not what God wants). Despite this subtext, there's a lot of great, sometimes startling information in here (one example: drugs developed by the military that allow soldiers to forget the horror of battle, or perhaps atrocities they committed).

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-23 00:00:00 Jean Newport Very interesting, but you have to have patience (and at times a dictionary and thesaus). In short it talks about the ins and outs of gene manipulation and therapy.