Renovating the house of being: Genomes, souls, and selves

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1001, Issue , 2003, Pages 240-252

  Mauron, Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Genetic essentialism; Genome; Neuroethics; Sloterdijk

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUROPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; INDIVIDUALITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 1942506621     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1279.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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