Vital Harmonies

Molecular biology & our shared humanity

Erwin Fleissner

166 pages, parution le 07/12/2004

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"Fleissner plunges a stake through the chest of vitalism, showing that living systems are subject to natural law. His profound humanism and his justification of ethical tenets through an evolutionary analysis is wonderful and insightful." Max Gottesman, Director, Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University Medical Center The clarity and concreteness of our new (half-century-old) molecular biology are a triumph of human ingenuity... .The contemplation of these hard-won truths should yield an ultimate serenity-in the spirit of self-transcendent religious meditation the world over (perhaps especially from that part of the world that I, in my Euro-American origins, call the East). We shall see that a deeper "touchstone for ethics" is also revealed through such contemplation- A celebration of life is before us, if we choose to understand it. From Vital Harmonies

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Prefatory Note
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Molecular Biology from the Viewpoint of a Practitioner
The Genetic Point of View
The Logic of the Cell
From Cell to Organism
Abnormal Cell Growth in Cancer
Human Genomes and Human Beings
On Consciousness
Molecular Biology and the Limits of Molecular Explanation
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography and Further Reading
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Columbia University Press
Auteur(s)	Erwin Fleissner
Parution	07/12/2004
Nb. de pages	166
Format	14,5 x 21,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	386g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780231131124
ISBN13	978-0-231-13112-4