Introduction: Future perfect? Or, what should we hope for? / Peter Manley Scott and Celia Deane-Drummond
Perfect humans or trans-humans? / Ted Peters
Human nature and the human condition / Gordon Graham
The nature of human welfare / Søren Holm
In whose image? Representations of technology and the 'ends' of humanity / Elaine Graham
In the waters of Babylon: the moral geography of the embryo / Michael S. Northcott
Neuroscience and the modification of human beings / D. Gareth Jones
Ensoulment revised in response to genetics, neuroscience and out-of-body experiences / Gordon McPhate
Medicine, science and virture / Neil Messer
Forecasting the future: legitimizing hope and calming fears in the embryo stem-cell debate / Jenny Kitzinger and Clare Williams
Never too late to live a little longer? The quest for extended life and immortality: some ethical considerations / Ulf G̈örman
Genetic perfection, or fulfulment of creation in Christ? / Maureen Junker-Kenny
Future perfect? God, the transhuman future and the quest for immortality / Celia Deane-Drummond
Saving us from ourselves: christology, anthropology and the seduction of posthuman medicine / Brent Waters.
Future perfect? : God, medicine and human identity. ISBN 0567030792. Published by T & T Clark in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.