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Science 20 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5798, p. 423
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132808
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Biotechnology and the Human Soul

Michael A. Goldman

Challenging Nature
The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life
by Lee M. Silver
Ecco (HarperCollins), New York, 2006. 460 pp. $26.95, C$34.95. ISBN 0-06-058267-7.
Proclaiming an unlimited promise for biotechnology, the author paints its varied critics as uniformly ignorant and blinded by spiritual beliefs.
The reviewer is in the Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132-1722, USA. E-mail: goldman{at}sfsu.edu

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