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In the Shadow of Progress

By Eric Cohen

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In the Shadow of Progress

By Eric Cohen

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The wonders of progress are all around us, so commonplace that we usually take them for granted. Moved by curiosity and compassion, we have built a world that satisfies many deep human needs, especially the desire not to stand so naked in the face of nature's many malignancies. To cancer, we say chemotherapy; to infertility, we say in vitro; to depression, we say Prozac. Without technology, man is impotent, and only a fool would romanticize the age when mothers and children died regularly in childbirth, when keeping warm and staying fed were life's central struggles, and when the visible afflictions of the body had no other explanation except the hatred of the gods. Of modern progress, there is much to be proud.
Product details
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2008-06-23
Publication Date:
2008-06-23
Publisher:
Encounter Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1594032084
ISBN13:
9781594032080
Weight:
443 g
Height:
162 cm
Width:
230 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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