Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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How Technology Is Changing Our Perspective on the Body
I was thinking though, that nothing better demonstrates how technology is changing our perspective on the body than the human geno project. As there all these patterns and codes that define who we are open up. We get more and more detailed information about what we're likely to be susceptible to in the future. To putting it all together, you end up with the possibility of knowing in a very detailed way what you may or may not susceptible to in your life. But with that power, again, come very difficult issues for each of us to deal with.
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