... that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. As a result, the distinction between the living and the dead ... this equation of man and mechanism was an erasure of the moral boundaries between what science could create and what was reserved for a higher technology. According to Wasserman: In 1789, Johann Friedrich Mechel described a method for growing monstrous human embryos resembling fro...

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