Lawler, Peter Augustine.

Stuck with virtue : the American individual and our biotechnological future / Peter Augustine Lawler. - Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2005. - xli, 262 p. ; 23 cm. - Religion and contemporary culture . - Religion and contemporary culture series (Wilmington, Del.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.

Communism today -- Postmodern conservatism, conservative postmodernism -- The problem of technology -- The limits of the American Utopian imagination -- Compassionate conservatism and biotechnology -- The caregiving society -- The rise and fall of sociobiology -- The Utopian eugenics of our time -- Libertarian fantasy and statist reality -- Religion, conservatism, and liberationism -- Putting locke in the locke box.

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National characteristics, American.
Biotechnology.

E 169.12 / .L38 2005