Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People - Philip Ball
Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People - Philip Ball Can we make a human being? Unnatural delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of 'anthropoeia' - the artificial creation of…
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Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People - Philip Ball
Can we make a human being? Unnatural delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of 'anthropoeia' - the artificial creation of people - to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology, and the soul. The question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the clay golem of Jewish legend to the mass-produced test-tube babies in Brave New World.
Hoffman and Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein. Philip Ball traces the threads that link the legendary inventor Daedalus, Goethe's tragic Faust, the automata-making magicians of E.T.A. He argues that these old tales and myths are alive and well, subtly manipulating the current debates about assisted conception, embryo research and human cloning, which have at last made the idea of 'making people' into flesh and blood reality.
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