After the Genome

Michael J. Hyde is University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics in the Department of Communication and is on the faculty of the Program for Bioethics, Health and Society in the School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment, The Ethos of Rhetoric, and award-winning The Call of Conscience. He and his wife live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. James A. Herrick is The Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication, Hope College and author of Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs .

Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future: Rhetoric, Religion, Science, and Ethics (Michael J. Hyde and James A. Herrick) 1. Faith in Science: Professional and Public Discourse on Regenerative Medicine (Tristan Keys, Nancy M.P. King, and Anthony Atala) 2. From Arrowsmith to Atwood: How Did We Come to Disrespect Science? (Ronald M. Green) 3. The "Warfare" of Science and Religion and Science's Ethical Profile (Thomas M. Lessl) 4. Is There a Human Nature? An Argument against Modern Excarnation (Jean Bethke Elshtain) 5. Crossing Frontiers of Science: Trespassing into a Godless Space or Fulfilling Our Manifest Destiny? (Leah Ceccarelli) 6. The Angels and Devils of Representing Prozac (Tod Chambers) 7. "Leave Your Medicine Outside": Bioethics, Spirituality, and the Rhetoric of Appalachian Serpent Handlers (Bill J. Leonard) 8. Biovaluable Stories and a Narrative Ethics of Reconfigurable Bodies (Arthur W. Frank) 9. Blacks and the Language of Their Biotechnological Future (Ezra E. H. Griffith) 10. Bioethics, Economism, and the Rhetoric of Technological Innovation (Howard Brody) 11. Technologies of the Self at the End of Life: Pastoral Power and the Rhetoric of Advance Care Planning (Lisa KerA?nen) 12. Suffering and the Rhetoric of Care (Judy Z. Segal) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

"Hyde and Herrick guide us in thinking critically about the terms, rhetorical dimensions, and stakes involved in the extraordinarily important investigation, innovation, and debate surrounding our biotechnological future. They gather a diverse dozen sages of biotechnological wisdom, give them an incisive framework for discussion, and invite us to listen, reflect, and travel into the future we are forming." --Russel Hirst Director, Program in Technical Communication and Associate Professor of English, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville " After the Genome explores the role rhetoric and the varieties of language practices associated with the emerging world of biotechnology. The chapters raise important questions: When does care and therapy turn into enhancement? Does our enthusiasm for advancements turn a blind eye to ethical issues? After the Genome is a must-read for those interested in the rhetoric and ethics of medicine and for those monitoring the development of transhumanism as a normative narrative." --Dale L. Sullivan, Professor of English, North Dakota State University "The power of language! This is an insightful volume that brings added understanding to Sartre's argument that 'words are loaded pistols.' After the Genome is an important contribution to the continuing debate on the impact of the biotechnology revolution." --Teresa L. Thompson, editor of Health Communication and Professor of Communication, University of Dayton