So Human an Animal

Dubos, Rene

ISBN 10: 0246640219 / ISBN 13: 9780246640215

Published by HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1970

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: So Human an Animal
• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246640219
• ISBN 13: 9780246640215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 400 grams

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Synopsis

Is the human species becoming dehumanized by the condition of our environment? So Human an Animal is an attempt to address this broad concern & explain why so little is being done to address this issue. The book sounds both an urgent warning & offers important policy insights into how this trend towards dehumanization can be halted & finally reversed. Dubos asserts that we are as much the product of our total environment as of our genetic endowment. In fact, the environment we live in can greatly enhance, or severely limit, the development of human potential. Yet we're deplorably ignorant of the effects of our surroundings on human life. We create conditions which can only thwart human nature. So Human an Animal is a book with hope no less than alarm. Science can change our suicidal course by learning to deal analytically with the living experience of humans, by supplementing the knowledge of things & of the body machine with a science of human life. Only then can we give larger scope to human freedom by providing a rational basis for option & action.
The unbelievable future
Man's nature & human history
Biological remembrance of things past
The living experience
The pursuit of significance
The science of humanity

About the Author

René Dubos was professor at The Rockefeller University in New York. He was a celebrated microbiologist and experimental pathologist. He was the first to demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining germ-fighting drugs from microbes. Among his many writings are So Human an Animal, The Torch of Life, and The Unseen World.