The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

Eben Kirksey

doi:10.46692/9781529217315

An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?

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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Contents
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The Mutant Timeline
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Prologue : The World On Notice
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1 - I’m Quite Glad That I Wasn’T First
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2 - The China Dream
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3 - The Best Humans haven't been Produced Yet
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4 - Winner Takes All
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5 - Look at those Muscles, Look at that Butt
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6 - A Moral Choice
pp 75-79
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7 - Will I have to Mortgage My House?
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8 - The Cancer Moonshot
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9 - Free Health Care for All
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10 - Silence = Death
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11 - Immortality has to be the Goal
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12 - I don't want to Walk. I want to Fly
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13 - High-Quality Children
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14 - #Transracial
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15 - American Medicine and only for You
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16 - He was Busy, Busy. Always doing Research
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17 - A Hammer, Looking for a Nail
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18 - Beautiful Lies
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19 - Two Healthy Baby Girls?
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20 - Mixed Wisdom
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21 - They are Moving Forward
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22 - Chinese Scientists are Creating Crispr Babies
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23 - Bubbles Vanishing into Air
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24 - The Hourse has Already Bolted
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Epilogue: We have Never Been Human
pp 247-260
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