The Lives to Come

ect, Philip Kitcher takes readers into the heart of the revolution in genetic research today and raises important philosophical questions about its impact on ethical, legal, and political issues, now and in the future.

Philip Stuart Kitcher is a philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism.

List of Illustrations

9

(4)

1. The Shapes of Suffering

13

(10)

2. Our Mortal Coils

23

(42)

3. To Test or Not to Test?

65

(22)

4. The Road to Health?

87

(18)

5. A Patchwork of Therapies

105

(22)

6. The New Pariahs?

127

(30)

7. Studies in Scarlet

157

(30)

Interlude: The Specters That Won't Go Away

181

(6)

8. Inescapable Eugenics

187

(18)

9. Delimiting Disease

205

(16)

10. Playing God?

221

(18)

11. Fascinating Genetalk

239

(32)

12. Self-Dissection

271

(14)

13. The Quality of Lives

285

(24)

14. An Unequal Inheritance

309

(18)

Postscript (March 1997)

327

(16)

Notes

343

(20)

Glossary

363

(6)

Acknowledgments

369

(6)

Index

375

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