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30. Rheinberger, “Beyond Nature and Culture,” 259, 253.
31. Ibid., 254; see Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1988), 71.
32. Ibid., 254.
33. See Edmund D. Pellegrino, ed., Ethics, Trust, and the Professions: Philo-
sophical and Cultural Aspects (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press,
1991).
34. The distrust is open and evident in, for instance, the rejection of human
cloning by Leon Kass (“The Wisdom of Repugnance”).
35. Barbara Ehrenreich,” The Economics of Cloning,” Time (November 22,
1963): 86.
36. See Nicholas Rescher, “Moral Issues Relating to the Economics of New
Knowledge in the Biomedical Science,” in New Knowledge in the Biomedical
Sciences: Some Moral Implications of Its Acquisition, Possession, and Use , ed.
William B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Stuart F. Spicker, and Joseph
M. White (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing, 1982), 33-45.
37. Itself a stark reminder of what Edmund Husserl pointed out at the begin-
ning of the twentieth century in his 1910 essay in the journal Logos , “Philoso-
phy as Rigorous Science,” published in English together with “Philosophy and
the Crisis of European Man,” in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy ,
trans. and intro. Quentin Lauer (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965). Husserl
picked up the theme much later in his The Crisis of European Sciences and Tran-
scendental Phenomenology , ed. Walter Biemel, trans. and intro. David Carr
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
38. Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1966), 189.
39. Ibid., 194-195.
40. Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the
Technological Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 141.
41. H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., “The Philosophy of Medicine: A New Endeavor,”
Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine 31 (1973): 451-452.
42. Hans Jonas, Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological
Man (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974), 18.
43. R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (New York: Pantheon Press, 1967).
44. Alfred Schutz, “The Problem of Transcendental Intersubjectivity in Husserl,”
in Collected Papers (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966), 3:82.
45. Alfred Schutz, “Scheler's Theory of Intersubjectivity and the General Thesis
of the Alter Ego,” in Collected Papers (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962),
1:168.
46. See Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckmann, Structures of the Life-World
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973), 46.
47. Mawer, Mendel's Dwarf , 197, 198.