Human enhancement / edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description
vi, 423 pages ; 25 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Can anyone really be talking about ethically modifying human
    • Nature? / Norman Daniels
    • "Altering'' human nature? : misplaced essentialism in science policy / Eric 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 / Torbjorn Tannsjo
    • Life enhancement technologies and 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
    • 9780199299720 (alk. paper)
    • 0199299722 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2008031138
    OCLC
    237018382
    Other standard number
    • 99937688543
    RCP
    C - O
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