By Byron L. Sherwin

Imagine a world where the normal human life span is 150 years, where worn-out vital organs are routinely replaced by spares and consciousness is retained for eternity in cyberspace after death. Scientists anticipate such a world within a century, and even now, many signs of biotech "progress" are with us.

Are we living in the midst of a new Frankenstein story where we "play God" at the risk of tragedy and catastrophe? Or should we share the ebullient enthusiasm of those who anticipate a marvelous and riskless future? Rabbi Dr. Byron L. Sherwin, one of the leading Jewish ethicists of our time, explores these questions in Golems Among Us, by tracing the history of the fascinating Golem legend and illustrating how it can be applied to the minefield of social and biological engineering in which we now stand.

Hardcover.
Ivan R. Dee Publishing.