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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Humanities and the Future of the Life Sciences

Author : Donald Drakeman

Published in: Why We Need the Humanities

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Philosophy and theology may once have been known as the queens of the sciences, but, today, we often look to science and technology for answers to the ‘big questions’. Physicists have been on the trail of the God particle; biologists regularly dazzle the media with the discovery of one molecular Holy Grail or another; and the neuroscientists are competing with the economists to decide whether moral choices are genetically hard-wired or rationally calculated.

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Title
The Humanities and the Future of the Life Sciences
Author
Donald Drakeman
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book
Why We Need the Humanities

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-49746-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-49747-5

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137497475_2