The People Shapers
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the dawn of the biotechnology age, Vance Packard issued a chilling and prescient warning: science was no longer merely observing human beings — it had begun to redesign them. The People Shapers chronicles the explosive growth of technologies and behavioural sciences that grant governments, corporations, and institutions unprecedented power to manipulate, condition, and fundamentally alter the human mind and body. From genetic engineering and psychosurgery to behaviour modification and electronic surveillance, Packard maps a landscape where the boundaries of personal identity and free will are under sustained, systematic assault. A titan of mid-twentieth-century social criticism — the mind behind The Hidden Persuaders and The Status Seekers — Packard writes with the urgent clarity of a journalist and the moral conviction of a humanist. His prose is accessible yet deeply unsettling, marshalling mountains of scientific evidence into a coherent, damning argument about the erosion of human autonomy. Decades after its first publication, The People Shapers remains a landmark work of cultural warning, its central questions about who controls human nature — and to what end — more relevant today than ever.
Author: Vance Packard
Format: Hardback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the dawn of the biotechnology age, Vance Packard issued a chilling and prescient warning: science was no longer merely observing human beings — it had begun to redesign them. The People Shapers chronicles the explosive growth of technologies and behavioural sciences that grant governments, corporations, and institutions unprecedented power to manipulate, condition, and fundamentally alter the human mind and body. From genetic engineering and psychosurgery to behaviour modification and electronic surveillance, Packard maps a landscape where the boundaries of personal identity and free will are under sustained, systematic assault. A titan of mid-twentieth-century social criticism — the mind behind The Hidden Persuaders and The Status Seekers — Packard writes with the urgent clarity of a journalist and the moral conviction of a humanist. His prose is accessible yet deeply unsettling, marshalling mountains of scientific evidence into a coherent, damning argument about the erosion of human autonomy. Decades after its first publication, The People Shapers remains a landmark work of cultural warning, its central questions about who controls human nature — and to what end — more relevant today than ever.