TY  - BOOK
AU  - Savulescu,Julian
AU  - Bostrom,Nick
TI  - Human enhancement
SN  - 9780199594962 (alk. paper)
AV  - RA418.5.M4 H86 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Medical innovations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Prenatal diagnosis
KW  - Genetic engineering
KW  - Biomedical Enhancement
KW  - ethics
KW  - Genetic Engineering
KW  - Prenatal Diagnosis
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Human enhancement ethics : the state of the debate / Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu -- pt. I. Human enhancement in general. 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 -- pt. II. Specific enhancements. 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 : 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 -- pt. III. Enhancement as a practical challenge. The wisdom of nature : an evolutionary heuristic for human enhancement / Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg
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