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Title:

Enhancing human traits : ethical and social implications / edited by Erik Parens.

Publisher:

Georgetown University Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

x, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical innovations--Social aspects.
Psychotropic drugs--Moral and ethical aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Moral and ethical aspects.
Performance technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Technology, Medical.
Bioethics
Psychotropic drugs
Surgery, Plastic.

Other Authors:

Parens, Erik, 1957-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Devices and desires of our own hearts / Mary G. Winkler. What does enhancement mean? / Eric T. Juengst -- Enhancements of human function : some distinctions for policymakers / Dan W. Brock -- Treatment-enhancement distinction as an armament in the policy wars / David M. Frankford -- Fatal attraction to normalizing : treating disabilities as deviations from "species-typical" functioning / Anita Silvers -- Rhetoric of cosmetic surgery : luxury or welfare? / Kathy Davis -- Aspirin for the mind? some ethical worries about psychopharmacology / Carol Freedman -- Do means matter / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Cosmetic surgery, suspect norms, and the ethics of complicity / Margaret Olivia Little -- Tyranny of happiness : ethics and cosmetic psychopharmacology / Carl Elliot -- Braveheart, Babe, and the contemporary body / Susan Bordo -- Enhancements and the ethical significance of vulnerability / Gerald P. McKenny -- Devices and desires of our own hearts / Mary G. Winkler.

Series:

Hastings Center studies in ethics

ISBN:

9780878407033
0878407030
9780878407804
0878407804

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38732289

LCCN:

98016197

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)