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Title:
Human enhancement / edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
vi, 423 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Medical innovations--Social aspects.
Medical ethics.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Genetic engineering.
Biomedical Enhancement--ethics.
Genetic Engineering--ethics.
Prenatal Diagnosis--ethics.
Other Authors:
Savulescu, Julian.
Bostrom, Nick, 1973-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Human enhancement ethics : the state of the debate / Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu -- Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human nature? / Norman Daniels -- What's taxonomy got to do with it? : 'species integrity,' human rights, and science policy / Eric T. Juengst -- Should we improve human nature? : an interrogation from an Asian perspective / Ryuichi Ida -- The case against perfection : what's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering / Michael J. Sandel -- What is and is not wrong with enhancement? / Frances Kamm -- Enhancements are a moral obligation / John Harris -- Playing God / C. A. J. Coady -- Toward a more fruitful debate about enhancement / Erik Parens -- Good, better, or best? / Arthur L. Caplan -- The human prejudice and the moral status of enhanced beings : what do we owe the gods? / Julian Savulescu -- Is selection of children wrong? / Dan W. Brock -- Parental choice and human improvement / Peter Singer -- Reasons against the selection of life : from Japan's experience of prenatal genetic diagnosis / Susumu Shimazono -- Medical enhancement and the ethos of elite sport / Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Life enhancement technologies : the significance of social category membership / Christine Overall -- Paternalism in the age of cognitive enhancement : do civil liberties presuppose roughly equal mental ability? / Daniel Wikler -- Enhancing our truth orientation / Robin Hanson -- The wisdom of nature : an evolutionary heuristic for human enhancement / Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg.
ISBN:
0199299722 (alk. paper)
9780199299720 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)237018382
LCCN:
2008031138
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

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